Much Better

Hey Everyone,

I am glad to report that Spencer Aaron is doing much better today. He was bright eyed and not upset for much of the day. He was able to talk and play and do all sorts of things.

I will bring you all up to speed on what has been going on lately.

From the eyes perspective there is a disease that affects the eyes that premature babies can get called Retinopathy of Prematurity. It is a disease that causes abnormal blood vessels to grow where there are not normal blood vessels in Spencer's eyes. I am glad to report that he did have Stage One ROP in his left eye. It was not bad enough for surgery but it has completely disappeared. They also divide his eyes into zones on the paper that they fill out to tell when his eyes are mature. They are almost completely mature and he won't have to have an exam for like 5 or 6 weeks. If they are mature at the next exam then he won't have to have one till 6 months from that date just to make sure that his vision is forming ok.

Now, the lung doctor came by today and said that it is possible that Spencer might have Pulmonary Hypertension. I am not sure exactly what that is but they are not 100% sure yet so on Monday Spencer will have a repeat Echocardiogram to make sure. If it is Pulmonary Hypertension then it will be able to be controlled with another medicine.

The Cardiologist also came by this morning and made some more changes to his medicine that helps control the activity of his heart to keep his heart rate from jumping too high (200-250). That could wear out his heart if it isn't controlled.

The blood culture that his nurse drew yesterday has FINALLY come back NEGATIVE. That means that the antibiotics that they have him on ARE working to get him over the infection. Well I will leave you with a few pics from tonight after Spencer started to fall asleep.

Well here ya go... (now he's 3 months old!) (the last picture was when he was 2 weeks old!)



Ok I'm happy now!!



Awwww!!



Slobber Spot!!!



Big Boy Spencer!!!