March 8

Of course the inevitable has happened- Will has an infection. Luckily, it's pretty common and responds well to a combination of antibiotics, one of which he was already on. His doctor added the second antibiotic and we should see improvement in his labwork tomorrow. So everybody pray that we can knock this thing out quickly and easily. His doctor and nurses aren't too worried, so I'm not going to be either. My rule is, don't panic until the doctor does. And since one sick child was apparently not enough, Mason cam down with some kind of cold funk complete with eye ooze!! Yeah, we're like the plague family- don't you all want to come hang out at our house?
Hays is still trucking along, funk-free, thank goodness! His feedings are up to 13 cc and he's doing really well with them. They moved Will down to 8 cc because he wasn't digesting all of his 11 cc feedings, but they upped his calories with milk fortifier and safflower oil, so he should still gain weight just fine. Hays also has safflower oil added to his feedings which adds a lot of calories so we can get some meat on those little bones!
One cool thing today is that Will really likes his recorded "storytime." His oxygen saturation levels tend to rise a lot when he hears my voice (which is a good thing) and when we played the tape for him his levels stayed really high the whole time! So now he can listen to mommy and hear lots of great stories and be a happy little guy even when I'm not there. Yay for technology!!!