Day 35

The doctors started another round of steroids on monday-they started seeing progress yesterday (Wednesday) and they will continue the steroids through Friday. Monday was a good day, then on Tuesday, they tried to move his ventilator settings down, but he did not like it (of course). Wednesday morning, his amp was on 38, but the oxygen in his blood was good, so they moved the amp down to 35. Then at 6 pm, he was doing so well that they moved it down again-to 33. I called today around noon, and they said that they moved it down this morning to 30. So let's see what happens for the rest of the day and tonight. The doctor actually said he might move to a regular vent soon instead of the oscillator-well, that better be true b/c it is not nice to get all of our hopes up. It is really all up to Tucker anyway, though, so we hope he does well. He weighs 2 pounds, 8 ounces, which seems big for him-he is almost to 3 pounds, which is exciting. Last night I went to see him. He had on his baseball shirt-he looked so cute:) He has a lot of hair, I think, and it is fuzzy looking. He has been behaving very well lately. He is very active, though. He moves all around in his cage (that's what we call his bed), so the nurses have to keep putting him back, but they say he is just acting normal for his age and size.