Saturday, November 19th

Will's doctors found something on his heart echo yesterday... he has some effusion in one of his lungs. This means that he has some fluid build-up in his lung. They don't know what caused it. The fluid could be the result of an infection among other things. When they did his chest x-ray this morning it showed an improvement. Right now, they are going to try and let Will's body take care of it on its own. But, if it worsens they will do a tap, or if it gets bad enough, a chest tube. If he gets a chest tube, this will delay his transfer to Vandy... so please pray that this doesn't happen!

The effusion also caused Will to have a minor setback with his ventilator. They had to stop his sprints yesterday and eventually went up on his ventilator settings.

Other than that he has been a happy baby. He was awake for a few hours today looking around and staring at his monitors.

His feedings have also been going really well. No spitting up!! But you have to remember that the feeding tube is going into his small intestine, so that doesn't mean his acid reflux is gone... we will have to tackle that later. We are so relieved because we thought he might need a stomach surgery, and for now it doesn't seem that he needs it.