Christmas is my favorite holiday. It always has been and probably always will be. It was especially fun as a child and waking up to see all of the presents Santa Claus had brought me the night before. It is with this in mind that I begin to tell everyone what happened on Nicholas' first Christmas.
Mariah and I left the hospital on Christmas Eve about 10 or so to come home and go to sleep. About 11 I decided that I didn't want Nicholas to be alone on Christmas because like I said I have always enjoyed it and I didn't want him to be alone on his first Christmas. I went up to the NICU and his nurse asked me if I wanted to hold him and I of course said yes. Well, Nicholas had an apneic spell. The nurse stimulated him and I held him again and again he had another spell. This time I told her I wasn't going to hold him if he's going to keep on doing that. Then Nicholas started having spells while he was lying in his crib. I mean he was having them 1 after the other with about 2-3 minutes in between. They would stimulate him and his numbers would go back up and the fall right back down. At 1 point there was a nurse holding him up and just waiting to stimulate him to prevent the spell from happening. He was constantly having to have more oxygen too. His face was very white and he had very little response to anything that was being done to him.
The nurse then called Dr. Harlan and it was then decided that Nicholas was going to be put back on SIPAP and that Dr. Harlan was going to come in. They went ahead and started Nicholas on antibiotics in case he had an infection. Dr. Harlan ran some tests and he said we wouldn't know if he had an infection until the noon test comes back. Although there is still 1 test that hasn't came back to confirm it yet Dr. Cox seems to think that Nicholas has a urinary tract infection. It should clear up in 24-48 hours if that is indeed what he has. Nicholas did not last very long on SIPAP. He had to be put back on the ventilator after having several spells this morning. Nicholas also won't be fed until tomorrow at the earliest because he's on an iv and is being given the antibiotics.
This all started happening around 11:30 on Christmas Eve and at about 2am Mariah called (she was worried) and I told her as much as I knew. She immediately came up there and we stayed at the hospital until 5:30 am this morning and went back around 12 today. I'll post the latest as soon as we have something definitive.
As of now they're saying Nicholas probably got the infection from his own skin.
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