Eli's feeds have been going really well. He is taking the bottle about 3 or 4 times a day and he is getting a good 20 to 30CC's at every feeding. Right now 30CC's is the maximum they want us to try since we're still working on his swallowing but he hasn't had any problems so far. We are feeding him 95CC's every 3 hours so whatever he doesn't take via the bottle we give him through the NG tube.
Our nurse this morning was one of the "old timer" nurses who we've become friendly with over the last few weeks. We talked about Eli's granuloma and how the silver nitrate was applied. The nurse told us that the hospital was going to change their policy as a result of Eli's unfortunately experience and they were going to require the doctor who wrote the order for silver nitrate to actually perform the procedure. While this doesn't "make it right" at least it won't happen again to someone else.
Later in the afternoon they tried the BiPAP mask on Eli for a while. By all accounts it didn't go very well. The mask is a little too big and Eli was very upset and fussy when they put it on him. We'll try to get some pictures of the mask held up to his face for reference. We are going to wait a while before trying it again. We haven't had a chance to discuss a new timeline with the doctors yet but it will be high on our priority list next week.
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