April 23, 2009

Hilton had a very good day yesterday. He is taking feedings every three hours and has tolerated all of them. His blood gas looks good, as well as his chest x-ray this morning. His billirubin is down, which means he should get out from under the phototherapy light sometime today. We are also hopeful that the doctors will decide to try to remove him from the ventilator today. They progressively lowered his settings yesterday and he has tolerated this extremely well. The doctors will make rounds between 10 and 2 to decide whether to remove him today. Please pray that he will successfully make it off the vent today and continue to improve!