Timmy continues to be somewhat restless this morning. Overnight, they sedated him four times, this morning, once more. Most of his numbers look good, but he is still fighting a lot of gunk in his airways. He is on two antibiotics, and will continue for the next few days at least.
The restlessness and discomfort are now assumed to be from gastrointestinal gas build up and bloating. The plan to help this involves stopping his feeds, pulling his NG tube, installing an nd tube (goes down past the stomach), putting in a new ng tube to suction off excess gas, and doing an X-ray before restarting feeds. They hope to accomplish this during day shift today (day shift goes until 7), which means they hope to get feeds restarted within 10 hours.
His weight has not been checked yet today as his bath overnight didn't go well, and after the bath he went to sleep and they wanted to let him sleep.
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