We've been home now almost a week. Jereth is stable and growing. He's over 8 pounds on both doctor's scales as well as on the home health nurse's scale.
We have lots of medical equipment in the basement to take care of Jereth. There's an air compressor, a humidifier, a feeding pump, and an oxygen monitor. The air compressor and humidifier are to keep 5 liters/minute of air flow to keep Jereth's airway open. The feeding pump runs his feed into his stomache (we took the NJ tube out when it got clogged and Dr. Mumford approved going back to an NG tube). The oxygen monitor is to let us know when he knocks the air tubes (canula) out of his nose and struggles to get enough oxygen.
I went back to work on Thursday. I'm sure I miss him more than he misses me since he has Daddy to take care of him during the day.
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