Alive, Alert, Awake, Enthusiastic

This is a moment made for worshipping,
Cause this is a moment I'm alive.
And this is a moment I was made to sing,
A song of living sacrifice.
For every moment that I live and breathe,
This is a moment made for worshipping.
-Moment Made for Worshipping, Steven Curtis Chapman

Okay, since we last met...

Many changes have taken place for Mr. Tennyson as he's doing so great. Jeanne took him off his caffeine (he was give an oral dosage via his NG tube once a day to keep his heart a going, just like many times we need a caffeine jolt aka Pepsi or cup of coffee to keep going, with these preemies many of them do as well) as caffeine can be a stomach irritant and she believes his desatting episodes are a direct result of him refluxing.

Also she discountinued his eye drops. She said if it was an infection in his eye it should be cleared up by now and if it's not the infection that's causing all the goop, we need to know. Last night his eyes looked much better and he wasn't taking the drops. The next alternative for the eyes would be a tear duct problem so they are using warm compresses and massaging his tear ducts to see if that helps, if not we will see a specialist who will do some surgery on his little ducts.

She said since he did so well with his feeding Wednesday night he could have a bottle once a shift so at 5pm yesterday (Thursday) I was able to feed him a bottle and him drink it for the first time which I have to say was awesome. It's kinda funny but you can feel (literally) their feeding running clear through them as they're not very big and their fat (padding) isn't very thick so you can feel the milk travel down into his stomach. It was wild!! Harla, was his day nurse and when we finished the bottle she said, "Oh goodness, that was all that was left in the bottle I had mixed up (they mix my milk with human milk fortifier to add calories) and I wasn't sure if he'd take all 47 MLs so I put the bottles remainder in there to be sure I could draw up additional in the syringe for his gavage (NG tube) feeding (if the preemies don't take their entire bottle the rest is drawn up and given via his NG tube as before). He drank all 60 MLs, Jeanne is going to kill me when she finds out." At this point in time, Jeanne isn't aware but out little guy is kinda a pig...he's getting fat and happy though so we don't mind.

When I came back in at 11pm (we were at our house working on a video Travis is creating about Tennyson with some computer glitches but that's another story for another day...) to feed him his second bottle, he was just a wailing, he was hungry and of course I was around 5 minutes late. I am never on time now, I can't imagine how late I'm going to be now that there are two of us. So I fed him then and he scarfed down 55 MLs. He did so great though and even acted hungry afterwards...we gave him his pacifier (he's doing so well with the non-nutrative) and he calmed down and fell asleep so I just held him sleeping until around 1:30 and then decided to head back to Oronogo to get Travis. Needless to say, we're running on fumes but it's wonderful.

We just can't believe how big he's getting, he weighed in last night at 5lbs. 7.1 ounces, he's just growing like a weed and filling out so much. He looks much more like a baby now, rather than just skin and bones as he did earlier. His skin isn't so wrinkly as there is now some fat behind it to make him look beefier. He is almost out of all his preemie clothing, everything is getting so hard to button because he's so long, so we're going to be adding some new items to his wardrobe probably next week.

Travis and I again can't say to you enough times how greatly we appreciate not only that you've been on this journey with us each step of the way and that you've been lifting us up but that you continue to remember us. We know when things go on for weeks and weeks it can be hard to be continually renewed and excited about them, so again thanks for continuing to lift us up, we know how easy it would be for you to not remember us as often as you obviously are or we wouldn't be doing so well. So thank you and Praise the Lord. Our hearts are yours...

Worshipping the Wonderful-
Travis, Lindsay & Tennyson Myers