Day 129

Things are still pretty up and down in here today, but largely unchanged. His BUN and creatinine are down even more, and he's still peeing like crazy. He looks like a different kid without all of the excess fluid blowing him up! We'll check his liver enzymes tomorrow, so we don't know yet if there's any change with that. His chest xray looked much better this morning, and we'll be trying to wean him down to a more comfortable flow on his oxygen. We didn't make too many changes to his routine this morning, since things seem to be working pretty well with what we're already doing. We'll make slight changes to a couple of his meds and change the way he's fed through the tube, but everything else remains the same. We'll keep him on the milrinone for another couple of days and then put him back on his usual schedule of heart meds. He's even more alert today, and I even got a tiny half smile out of him earlier. He's not back up to full speed yet, but I think we're getting there a little more each day! Hopefully I'll have more good news to report tomorrow. :)