Today has been a quiet day, letting Jereth sleep as much as he will. His weight has increased slightly while here, from 3.0 kg (6 lbs 10 oz) to 3.1 kg (6 lbs 13 oz) and he is breathing much easier with the forced air therapy.
Tomorrow Doctor Beck will scope his upper respiratory tract to see how much damage there is from reflux and how much of his breathing issue comes from malacia, weak walls in the airway.
Once she has the results of the scope, Dr. Walker will contact the doctor at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake with that information as well as the results of the echocardiogram he had on Friday. She expects to hear back from that doctor quite quickly and they will determine how soon the surgery can take place. We're hoping to know something a little more definite about the timing of the surgery by Wednesday.
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