They drew labs on Mason this morning and found some bands. Bands are baby white blood cells which are often an indicator of the beginning of an infection. His CRP score was also elevated (I think 256) which is really high and another indicator of inflammation. Overall, his color isn't looking good and his stomach looks large so they did an abdominal x-ray and a free air x-ray to check for a perforation. The x-ray didn't look bad but there was a diluted part of his intestine so they did stop his feeds for tonight just to be safe. The free air x-ray was fine but they are going to repeat this all in the morning. I am hoping and praying that this isn't a big deal. They started Mason back on HMF (human milk fortifier) to add additional calories. Last time they tried to add this in Mason had a bad reaction to this and got a really bad upset stomach. I am almost thinking that this is related because they have just started him back on this on Sat. and today he pooped a bunch. So we will wait and see. They are going to check labs again tomorrow morning. Please pray that this resolves into a small bump in the road. We are faithful and looking to the great Healer. Thank you for your prayers.
I a m so sorry to hear about this.. but like you said, hopefully it is just another little bump in the road and he will be doing better soon. Praying for Mason.
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