The Culprit

Now I love yeast.

Or at least I love the baked goods that require yeast to make them rise.

Where I don't like yeast?

In our son's blood.

I mentioned yesterday that it appeared Isaac had another infection (on top of the other one he is still on Vancomycin for).  He does.  Only it is a generalized yeast infection (in preemies this young EVERY infection becomes generalized).  Not what we were expecting, but not entirely surprising considering he has been on hefty antibiotics for the last 9 days.  He has remained stable on the vent but is clearly a very sick boy.  They have to check his heart (done today and it looks fine), his eyes and his kidneys to look for evidence of localized involvement.  They started him on the medication... which in medicine is nicknamed "Amphoterrible" because of the nasty side effects.  We should see some improvement in about 48 hours.

Just so glad that he won't remember any of this...

On a brighter note....

Parker is now off all oxygen, which is a very good thing since he has become particularly proficient as of late at pulling the cannula out of his nose so that he is oxygenating his... cheek.    Emery is nipping at his heels and was also taken off oxygen today but had an episode of bradycardia and severe desaturation so she is sporting the cannula again.  The other big news is that I was able to feed both of them from a bottle today.  Impressive considering they are not yet supposed to be able to coordinate the suck-swallow-breathe thing yet.  Apparently all that practice they have been getting on the pacifier has served them well:-).