Where's my dinner!!

The weekend has brought even more good news. The doctors said that they had been unable to grow any cultures using the spinal liquid that they had taken during his lumber puncture which meant that he didn't have a nasty infection in the brain. Also his CRP figure was continuing to drop indicating that the infection was definitely subsiding. The next bit of good news was that his bowel was beginning to sound normal. Later when mum changed his nappy, he had well and truly messed it so she was sure his bowel was moving. However, until he starts to feed again on Wednesday, he is not quite out of the woods. He is still being given three antibiotics as well as a cerebral drug to prevent fits.

On Sunday, they finally decided to try and take him off his ventilator and put him back on C-PAP. There was no way of telling if he would be OK, it was purely "have a go and see what happens". We had to wait for a couple of hours for Thomas to have another line put into his hand (he'd managed to bend the old one!) and receive his morning coffee in the form of a caffeine hit to help stimulate his breathing. Finally, the time came and within an hour he was breathing like an angel. When we returned that evening, he was still doing brilliantly.

This morning, mum got a lovely cuddle with Thomas for a whole hour and he didn't even desaturate once, unlike the last time when he had to be resusitated in his mother's arms!! Later today, he got weighed and is continuing to take after his father putting on another 100g so now weighs 1.42kgs (3lb 2oz in old money).

Today's picture see Thomas having a half hour break from his C-PAP looking much more like his old self though rather hungry (only another 36 hours to go before his next meal). Funnily enough, he is known as the old man of the unit now being the oldest baby in there!!