The eyes have it

Today was another solo day as Sean is recovering from his cold.  But Lynn was there all day, which was very nice for both me and Matthew!

The Good

Matthew had a good day today.  He was tolerating his feeds, and Lynn gave him some of the milk on the pacifier while he was sucking on it.  He really seemed to like it!  He also was able to stay on 22%(almost room air) oxygen for pretty much the whole day, even when he was on his back.  This is good because hopefully he is getting used to his new saturation requirements and rebounding slightly from his step back late last week.


The Bad

Matthew continued on the same pressure settings today, so they gave him a dose of Lasix as anticipated to try to move him along.  He also had his second eye exam today, which went OK (Lynn says it was a good exam).  Matthew's inner parts of his eyes are fully developed, which was good.  But his outer parts show stage 1 ROP.  He gets another exam sometime next week.  It may progress to stage 2, or it may stay at stage 1, or it may start to regress.  Apparently this is very common in preemies, especially ones born as early as Matthew.  We are at least hoping it stays at stage 1, but even if it goes to stage 2 they do nothing except wait and see.  Hopefully we can avoid any type of laser surgery.


The Ugly 

No Ugly for Matthew today - fingers crossed it stays that way