The Pee Pee Dance

No, this isn't the pee pee dance you are thinking of when your little toddler starts to wiggle before needing the potty. Colton's pee pee dance is the starting and stopping of making urine!

Last night Donny went to the hospital and Colton was making urine which was good. They decreased the medication helping him urinate down to a doseage rather than a constant drip. Well, guess what? I called this morning and Colton had stopped making pee pee again. When that happens he has a chain reaction where he starts retaining fluid all over his body including his lungs. When the lungs fill up, he needs more help on the ventilator.

The ventilator is great for helping Colton breathe but the more they turn it up to help him the more pressure it creates. As with everything on a preemie, the balance is very important. Colton has reached the point today where the ventilator is high enough that they start to worry a bit about stretching out his lungs too much so they are switching him to a different kind of vent called a High Frequency Oscillator. Here is a description of it:

High Frequency Oscillator - When a conventional ventilator fails to provide an adequate amount of breathing support or when we become concerned that the conventional ventilator may be causing additional harm to the lungs we may change to a special type of ventilator called a high frequency oscillator. The oscillator ventilator provides constant pressure to the baby’s lungs that keeps them inflated with air. It then vibrates very rapidly which can often be seen by watching the infant’s chest wiggle.

He will stay on this until the fluid clears out enough to be safely put back on the regular vent. Thus goes Colton's pee pee dance.