Updates: 05.06.2011

♥TEAM CALEB♥ bracelets are on their way!! :D To try to help the George family with costs incurred during Caleb's stay, I'll be offering them in exchange for donations to the family. If you'd like to have one, please contact Rebecca @ teamcalebgeorge@gmail.com ♥ They'll be available in child & adult sizes. Have a great weekend! ♥TEAM CALEB♥

Updates: 05.05.2011

New Team Caleb Default! 

We met with the doctors today and they are all very happy with how well Caleb is doing. The surgeon said he is very happy that they didn't have to do as much to his heart as they were thinking they might have to do looking at the echos of his heart before he was born. They can't give any timeline on him coming home because its all going to depend on him.  They are going to try to take him off of CPAP again tomorrow and try the nasal cannulas tomorrow. If he does well with that we can hold him. They did put him back on some pain meds around the clock and are going to slowly wean him off of them since he is having withdrawals from them. :( I hate seeing him have the jitters from that. Once he is back on just the oxygen with the nasal cannulas they will start trying bottle feeds and if those go well we can try to nurse.

Updates: 05.04.2011

Caleb was having a hard time expanding his lungs enough today and his sats kept dropping so they went ahead and put the cpap on him. He still breathes on his own but this helps him to breathe a little easier

8 pm: Caleb is still doing well. He was having a hard time fully expanding his lungs still bc he still has old secretions in his lungs from his pulmonary hemorrhage. Because his sats kept dropping today they decided to put him on the cpap. He still breathes on his own but the cpap gives a continuous positive pressure flow of oxygen and it Just helps to get him to fully expand his lungs. This isn't a step backwards, he just needed a little more help. They are still doing breat...hing treatments and also were going to do another treatment to help relieve any inflammation around his vocal cords that could also be contributing to him having to work so hard to breathe since he had some sounds thy could hear in his throat that would indicate that.

He was still having some issues with fully digesting his feedings but it was slowly getting better.

We have a conference with all of the doctors tomorrow to kind of go over everything and discuss the next steps. Will update more then.

Thank you all so much for the continued prayers and support. We are so blessed!

Updates: 05.03.2011

From Grandma: I love you Team Caleb! Thank you for all the prayers and support. Caleb is breathing on his own now. ♥♥ TEAM CALEB ♥♥  I cannot say enough about the doctors, surgeons and nurses at Rady's Childrens Hospital, they are amazing. It takes a special kind of person with a huge heart to do what they do, especially the NICU nurses. GOD BLESS YOU!

Updates: 05.02.2011

6 pm: The doctors were giving Caleb another day on the ventilator today since they are still getting old blood out. I just spoke with his nurse and his last gasses were much better so they are going to give him a steroid overnight to make sure his vocal chords aren't swollen to take out the breathing tube. Then the plan is to take it out in the morning! He is doing great with them upping his feeds through his tube too!

Updates: 05.01.2011

9 am: Just called and talked to Caleb's nurse (my favorite nurse too!) and he is doing great. The surgeon is there to take out his drainage chest tube and then the plan for the day is to try to wean him off of the ventilator! :-) All of our prayers are being answered! Thank you all so much!!!

Updates: 04.30.2011

10 am:  Someone is ECMO FREE!! 

9:30 pm: Just talked to Caleb's nurse and he is doing great. She was giving him a small dose of medicine to calm him down b/c she had just moved him to his left side and since he isn't used to this it upset him a little bit. She did say though that he had only had one dose of the medicine earlier today and that is a great thing. Before he was getting it around the clock. Go Caleb!! ♥ Team Caleb ♥