11/7/2010

Today is Sunday the boys are now 6 weeks old we are heading up to the hospital to spend the day with them. Jackson caught a nasty bug called enterococcus that has made him septic and really done bad things to his little body over the last week. It has made his oxygen requirment go up and has made his body swell up so much because of his cappalaries leaking the nurses are having a hard time finding iv spots so they had to put a central line in last wednesday. His cappalaries leaking is causing his blood pressure to be low which is our biggest worry right now. He is on two blood pressure medicines at the highest dosages to help with the low blood pressure and it's not working they have added steriods and so far it has made his blood pressure come up a little. They have him on a continues morphine drip to keep him sedated and to keep him from feeling pain. Colton on the other hand is doing pretty good he is on two feedings of 28 cc every 3 hours and his tummy is tolerating it well. He is on manual control which means he can keep his tempature up so he he gets to wear clothes. On his oxygen he is on cpap nippv which he is taking his own breaths. He is on a really low rate so hopefully soon he will graduate to regular cpap and he will be breathing completly on his own. The boys were born september 25 by c section they were only 26 weeks and 5 days along Colton Allen was first born weighing in at 2 lbs 2 ozs and a minute later Jackson Anthony was born 1 lbs 13 ozs. They have had many ups and down since then but have proven to be very strong little fighters. At just one week old Colton had a perforated bowel which required immediate major surgery to fix it he has an ostomy that will be reversed later on. He has done great with this and has excedded all the doctors expections on his amount of feedings he has been able to tollerate. Jackson was diagnosed at 2 weeks of have preemie chronic lung disease which is his lungs are very fragile and not able to breath on his own right now because of this he is on a machine called and ocillator which gives him short small breaths which he was getting better until he got this horrible infection. More updates to come as we learn more.