Wednesday, March 6, 2013

There is no more talk of going home, so we are not planning for this week anymore. Brody was switched to the low flow cannula today, which we consider huge progress because he needs to be on low flow to go home. He was at 3/4 liter most of today. We'll see how tonight goes. He usually needs more when sleeping. He is working on crawling. He can get his legs under him but his upper body strength is still not enough to push up into a crawl. So he creeps to the edge of his mat and tries to go further, but we need to keep him on the mat. He has been reaching his arms out with his palms up for everybody who enters the room; a gesture to "pick me up!" He had a swallow study this morning and he is aspirating his liquids. So, we need to give him liquids with a spoon so he only gets one sip at a time. They recommend brushing his teeth before giving him anything so if there is bacteria in his mouth he won't aspirate it into his lungs. He threw up yesterday and today. We think with all of these eating issues that we will stay here for a while. That is okay, we don't want to be discharged just to go home if it is too soon. We don't want to end up with problems again. So we take it a day at a time.

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