Unfortunately Rebecca got he dreaded unsolicited call this morning from the NICU. One of the doctors called to let us know that they had run an x ray on Thomas and found that his lungs had collapsed. They have re-intubated him and moved him back to a nursery on the North side. He is in an open bed with a heater.
The doctor said that this is not uncommon with preemies with chronic lung disease. The good news is that the lungs are very resilient and he will most likely make a full recovery without any long term effects. We are still hoping that he will have his surgery next week and the doctor doesn't believe this will set that back. They would have had to re-intubate him for that surgery anyway. So if you want to look for a silver lining, that step is out of the way and perhaps he will b able to be weened off the ventilator sooner after the surgery.
There's no telling for sure, since we didn't have a date set for him coming home, but this may set him back a little. We're both disappointed of course. Rebecca had really started to gear towards bringing Thomas home and this hit her kind of hard. You keep saying there will be ups and downs and we've really had it easy, but the downs still pretty much suck. I'm headed back to Dallas today and Rebecca is going to go back up there shortly. I'll let you know what's going on.
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