Lincoln vents!

Lincoln is very puffy today but very adorable... his regular doctor (who happens to be the Chief of Neonatology at Children's!) was back on duty today so we had the opportunity to sit and chat with him and the surgeon that did his first NEC surgery. They really can't tell us very much about his condition since it's impossible to see inside his intestines without surgery but they are going to do a contrast study on his intestines tomorrow. This test will tell us for sure if there are any blockages or any other issues in there. We asked them to do the study 2 weeks ago but the surgeons said if they did the test and he DOES have a hole in the intestines that it will cause him many more issues when the 'ink' goes out of the hole.. but unfortunately that is all we can do at this point. We are just praying that it goes well and shows no problems so they can turn their attention to figuring out the other causes of the infection he has been fighting. We had a great nurse today, Kayla that he has alot and we've requested to have her whenever she is on. She LOVES Lincoln and gets very emotional when things go wrong with him so he REALLY upset her today! I was 'kangarooing' Lincoln for about 2.5 hours when he kept lifting his entire chest and head off me and trying either to turn his head or go for a walk.. not sure which.. the problem is by doing that he 'extubated' himself!! That means he pulled his vent tube out and stopped breathing! It was horrible and terrifying.. it was a mad rush for Kayla to get him out of my shirt and back into his bed while the doctors, respiratory techs, nnp's and nurses ran in to resuscitate him.. it was about a 15 minute ordeal but he is fine now. Cole was there so he was traumatized right along with us... apparently it's a fairly common thing when these little ones get stronger and more active.. but it definitely scared us all to death! The doctor just laughed at how feisty he is and wasn't concerned knowing that he seems to be able to conquer pretty much anything!