Heavy Henry

Holly was Henry's nurse tonight. I arrived just in time for his cares. She helped me change his diaper because he has so many wires and tubes running all over the place. His diaper weighed 25 grams. Carrie, the nurse practitioner, had put him on Lasix this afternoon and ordered 20 mls of saline for him because they were concerned that he wasn't releasing enough fluids. Looked like the Lasix was having the desired effect. Henry looked pretty unhappy during cares but he kept his sats high. Holly weighed him after the diaper change, and he weighed 910 grams! That means that he is now just over 2 lbs (907 grams = 2 lbs). Some of it may be fluid, but it appears that he is moving in the right direction. He was 880 grams last night.

I asked Holly about the results of the afternoon x-rays. Nothing has changed.

Other than that, it was an uneventful evening, which is good. I like it when Henry has uneventful evenings.

Holly was very nice as always. A couple days ago, my dad had mentioned to her our dissatifaction last week with nurse Kim. My dad often sees Holly in the morning as she is getting off her shift. Holly was appalled by Kim's story about the small preemies she took care of (the girl lived and the boy, who happened to be named Henry, died). She let Jeff and I know the other night that if we have problems with any of the nurses, we can talk with the charge nurse. We told her that we knew Kim was leaving, so we didn't see the point of lodging any complaints. And, we have been impressed with the nursing staff in the NICU. Henry has had so many different nurses over the past six weeks. The fact that we have only been unhappy with one is amazing. Long story short, Holly will be going on vacation next week. But she gave me her home telephone number and said to call her if we have any problems or have questions. She's going to be on duty Friday and Saturday, so hopefully, Henry will get her then.