Improving

Today it was confirmed that Nicholas does indeed have a urinary tract infection.  He's been on antibiotics for over 24 hours now and he has slowly been improving.  He's starting to get more and more active which means he's starting to feel better.  The plan is to put Nicholas back on SIPAP this afternoon because he's getting better and they're weaning his support on the ventilator.  In a day or two he should be back on the nasal cannula.  They will also give him some milk today (through the tube) but for now it will only be half of his normal feedings and tomorrow he will resume the full amount again.  Nicholas has also received a blood transfusion because they had to take his blood several times to check and make sure he's still recovering.  Once Nicholas settles back to where he was and a couple of days have passed they will resume giving him bottles.  He is still dealing with the infection but he is clearly feeling better. 

Of course this put a halt on our plans to finish the nursery as we have spent the majority of the past 2 days at the hospital.  At 1 point last night it got to where the doctor would walk by and check on both Nicholas and us, lol.  1 of the nurses asked us at about 9 pm if we wanted some coffee because she said we looked like we were about to fall out.  We ended up leaving last night around 1 am but we asked his nurse to call us as soon as the results came back from the 24 hour lab work (which was at 4 am).