It was a better day than yesterday. When we got to the hospital this morning Baby Jacob opened his left eye. Our hearts melted! He kept it open for a couple of seconds and then had to rest with it closed the remainder of the day. He also got to rest on his tummy for few hours, which he seemed to like okay.
They are upping the dose of Tylenol to help close the hole in his heart. It will take several days before they will do another echo-cardio gram to see if the hole has shut completely.
The blood cultures still have not grown any infection so our fingers are crossed that the possibility of menigitis is going down, but we still won't know for certain for awhile. He was given his first dose of antibiotics before the first blood cultures were taken, so the lack of culture growth doesn't necessarily mean no infection. They will do another draw tomorrow and see how his white blood cells are doing and then may stop the antibiotics since he has had a seven-day course. We remain very hopeful.
Jr. opening his eye for the very first time. Such a cute wink!
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