Pneumonia

We found out today that Hunter has pneumonia. It sounds a lot scarier than it is. He has some wonderful doctors and they are not surprised or intimidated by this.

He's been responding well to the antibiotics and is a completely different boy today than he was yesterday. If you look carefully you can see his little pink toes in the picture. His nurse says it is a good sign that he has healthy blood again.

I talked to Hunter's nurse earlier today and she kept referring to his "worst night" two nights ago. I find that the nurses use terms like that a lot, or "bad night" or "up and down" without really explaining what it means. I asked what made it his "worst night" and found out that at some points his blood gas tests showed results that could have been fatal had they not reversed. They have a much nicer way of explaining it though, usually involving many numbers and big words. She reassured me that little babies are very resilient, and it sounds as though they can handle a lot of conditions that adults would not be able to.

They're not going to push any changes on him for a while. Baby Hunter is going to get some time to rest and get over this infection. Because of this, they're going to leave him on the oscillator for a few days. They will continue to feed him milk, 2 ml every 4 hours. Hopefully after this is behind us we will have many boring days until he comes home.