March 21st, 2010

Kierson is now 1 week status-post surgery and doing well. She continues to show signs of bulking up, however, her GI track does not like the fortifier they are adding to her feeds. She has been suffering through a lot of gas. Deitre says Kierson will be crying and inconsolable one moment, pass some gas and then go to sleep or smile for a little while until the next gas cramp. This has made for a long week for Deitre seeing this ongoing cycle.
Kierson remains on 2 liters/min of supplemental oxygen. We are hoping that with the return of her primary neonatologist, she will possibly make some headway towards weaning this down. We are optimistic despite him telling us that she will go home on supplemental oxygen.
Otherwise, Kierson has remained infection free (and so have we...). We are apprehensive about germs and infection now more than ever. Emmerson made it through the Fall and Winter without getting sick and we hope that once we get Kierson home, measures we have been taking will continue to work to prevent infection.
We greatly appreciate your continued prayers for little Kierson. She is not out of the woods just yet (even after coming home...). She is still very vulnerable to a "simple" respiratory infection which could spell disaster given her bad lungs.