July 13, 2008 afternoon

I called to talk to Mark around 11:30 and Dr. Alimony got on the phone. He said that Brandon had a few desats so they changed the settings on the ventilator to give him more oxygen. When I talked to Mark, his nurse, he said that the desats happened after they were messing with him. He had a chest x-ray as well as an ultrasound from the cardiologist. It seems that Brandon does not like to be messed with and has desats when he is. When I called Mark at 1:30 he said that Brandon had been fine after he settled and Mark had turned down the oxygen level. Dr. Alimony said he would not get feedings today but he said they are hopeful to try tomorrow. I feel like we have been hearing that everyday for the last 3 or 4 days. Hopefully soon they really can start to feed him.

We were at the hospital this afternoon from 2:45-4:45. Brandon was fine most of the time we were there. The only time his numbers got wacky were when Mark flipped him over, took his temperature, and changed his diaper. Mark had to turn up the oxygen for that. Mark assured us that any baby would get angry at getting these things done. We talked to Dr. Alimony as well when we were at the hospital. He seemed pretty hopeful about trying to feed Brandon tomorrow. He will be fed milk into a feeding tube that will go down Brandon's mouth and into his stomach when he does get fed. Brandon is on an antibiotic but it seems to be more preventative. He will probably wind up being off of it tomorrow.