Friday, February 6, 2009

Recovery - Day One

Loki is recovering reasonably well today. He has produced a normal amount of urine. He has not yet pooped but his bowel sounds are good. (Funny: I have never described bowels as sounding "good," but there is a first time for everything!) Loki gets Tylenol regularly and morphine as needed for pain. This keeps him a little bit "out of it," and he is sleeping a lot. He will get some real food today, starting at about 1/3 the normal amount. His Foley catheter (see the updated post from yesterday) will be removed today.

I will spend most of today with him, and probably sleep at home tonight.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sending Love Love Love

Esti

Unknown said...

Hi little family,
I am so happy the surgery went well! And so look forward for you to settle down again after a week or two. The looks very cute in the pink baby pictures. Reading the blog post I realized it might not be possible at all to drop by at the Playground. So if you're too busy just put the tupperware outside at the back of the house and I'll try to pick them up.
Love
Freya

Anonymous said...

We are so happy for Loki, and Lijn and Jesse, everything went well and even in recovery Little Lokie seems to be doing great. That's just so good to hear. Reasons enough to celebrate.
Loving you all, Heleen and Frits.

Anonymous said...

lieve Jesse en Kathalijn, wat geweldig dat het zo goed is gegaan, nu ma weer snel beter worden , wat een geweldig idee om jou stem op te nemen en bij Loki af te draaien, wat zijn jullie geweldige ouders, fijn dat Loki bij jullie is geboren,
lieve groet van Greet

Anonymous said...

It's a good thing that Loki sleeps a lot right now, that helps him to recover soon.
Lot's of health for you (especially Loki and mom), from here. Dad, what you do is great!
X Maaike

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Loki Sky is a special little man. He was a very early micropreemie, weighing only 610 grams (1 lb, 5 oz) after 24 weeks, 3 days gestation, born to an American Father and a Dutch Mother in Berkeley, California on October 18, 2008.

On January 11, 2009, while still in the hospital NICU, his one kidney stopped working. It was repaired after three surgeries. After spending time in three hospitals in three cities, Loki came home on February 17. He struggled with eating, and then stopped in July, leading to 8 days in the hospital, a failure-to-thrive diagnosis, and a NG feeding tube. On October 10, a minor surgery installed a G feeding tube. Another procedure replaced it with a new one, and then again with a Mic-Key button in Jan. 2010.

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