Feb 17, 2007 -PM

Today seemed to be a good day for Josh. They lowered his oxygen level to 15% and his saturation seems to be fine with that. He is still on the Indocin so they will not feed him for another few days. He has had lots of tests today, and is getting a transfusion later on tonight. This is inevitable for these little ones, as I said, they take more than they can replenish. They are also doing his PKU tonight so have to delay some of the IV fluid until that is done. The PKU is a test done by the state to screen for lots of birth defects and is a heel stick.. .poor little man, he has no meat on those little feet!

He is still very hairy. That is from not being ready to be born. It's called lanugo and is normal. By looking at all of the hair, we can see that he is blond right now, He looks like a little Sasquatch! Darned blond Italian with all that hair on his back! (ok we are not Italian lol).

He also has really long fingers and toes. We noticed this before, and today I thought that he is going to have toes like Cousin Fred (poor little guy!). Fred has monkey toes and can pinch people with them. I guess some people have to be good at something, hopefully Josh will find something a little more marketable than working with his long toes. If he doesn't grow into his fingers, he will either be able to play the piano really well or palm a basketball!!

I tried to get a better close up picture. It's hard to see features with the vent in and he is still under the bilirubin lights, so the lighting is always bad. (He is laying on a beach in Aruba... lots of sunlight and humidity!). One of the nurses got a picture while he had the vent out, but she is off for the next 5 days. We will keep getting pictures and updating you on his progress. So far, he is doing fantastic.