Friday AM - It seems that Adam got tired of behaving himself the last several weeks as he's pulling some more tricks out of his bags. The throat cultures finally came back with a bacterial infection which means he has pneumonia, but that didn't change anything the doctors were doing as he was already being treated for that. It did allow them to identify a specific bacteria which meant they could narrow the antibiotics to one instead of several. On Wednesday night we got a call from the neonatologist who told us Adam' heart rate was starting to become irregular and rapid, and that they would start him on a beta-blocker after calling in the cardiologists. They came yesterday and confirmed the beta-blocker was the way to go, and he's been on it since yesterday afternoon. We'll find out today if it had the desired effect. If so, Adam will stay at The Woman's Hospital until he's finished with the antibiotic treatment, then he'll be transferred to Texas Children's Hospital where the caridioligists will take over. If the beta-blocker doesn't work then he will be transferred much sooner.

Heidi and I spent most of the day with Adam yesterday. Although he's not as active as he was prior to the episode that sent him back to Level 3, he is awake for periods of time when he will look at whoever's with him and pays close attention to what they are doing or saying. He sleeps quite a bit as they are giving him morphine to keep him settled and to prevent him pulling out his tubes, which he's very accomplished at doing. His skin color actually looks better (less yellow) than we have seen for sometime.

The next few days and weeks are going to be tough for us as we move to a new hospital and start a new routine. The staff at The Woman's Hospital has done a great job getting us to this point, but now we're told that Adam needs the staff and facilities at Texas Children's. I've said this before, but not enough can be said for the neonatologists and NICU nurses at Woman's. We will miss them greatly when we leave.

As I was finishing the last paragraph, one of the neonatologists called to report that the beta-blocker is working, so Adam will remain at The Woman's Hospital for another few days.

Please continue to keep us in your thoughts and prayers...