Monday, September 12

I started back to work today...exhausted.. already and it is only Monday night.  Hopefully I will at least lose some weight out of this deal...

Okay, so I saw Isaac tonight for a little while.  We are still on hold to hold our son... sad but know it is the best for him.  He is still on the C-PAP (yuck) and he lost 5 grams.  However, they think it is from the diuretic that they are giving him again to get rid of the fluid on his lungs.  So they aren't concerned about the weight loss.  They will give him the diuretic for 2 more days.  He also has a red and irritated mark on the inside of his elbow.  They are treating it with an antibiotic because they aren't sure how he got it.  It looks like an infected something or other... The back of his other hand has a blood line under his skin where they drew blood.  Needless to say he doesn't "look" too good.  He is still healthy though and I try not to go by what I see.  I have a friend who has said that these Drs and nurses seem to be proactive rather than reactive with their care for him.  Which I agree with him and know that they are giving Isaac the best care he could get anywhere.  Plus the nurses put up with all of my questions and saying "that doesn't look right," "what is that?"....

Please pray for his eye exam tomorrow.  As if he doesn't have enough going on, he will be having his eyes examined at 8:40 am tomorrow.  From what the nurse says it isn't a very fun exam for all those involved.  They have to hold him down in order to get the dilating solution in his eyes, hold his eyes open and examine each of them.  The nurse said that it only takes 15 seconds per eye.  But to me, if I were there watching, it would be 30 seconds too long as they hold down my son.  Which you have read, he will not be in favor of that since he likes to move.  So the nurse tonight said we most likely won't be able to hold him again tomorrow due to all of the handling and stress for him... sniff sniff...3 days in a row.  They are looking for the blood vessels in the back of the eye to see if they are torturous... which basically means growing in a wrong pattern... not painful. One funny thing is that during dinner tonight we received a phone call.  It was an automated appointment reminder for Isaac Iverson's eye exam. It asked if I wanted to confirm... I almost cancelled it but thought it best not to get involved.

Just for those who are wondering (as I am amazed by this) TACO LIVES!!! His tank already smells which I am not fond of but we have managed to keep a fish alive for 3 days. Way to go Iversons!