A Step Backward

Today was mom and dad's first morning without being one floor down from Archer, and mom received the dreaded phone call from the NICU on this first morning. The doctor needed consent to insert a tube through Archer's chest. There was air collecting in the space around his lung, preventing it from expanding. This can be very common in small preemies. The tube should help keep the air out of his chest and heal the lung within 2 or 3 days. Because of this setback, the c-pap was out of the question, and Archer went back to using the oscillator he was on when he was born. The nurses have been helping him wean off oxygen from this throughout the day.
Tomorrow Archer will have another brain scan to check for any bleeding.
They also plan on inserting a PICC line in his arm.  With this they will start to inject any fluids he needs because soon they will not be able to use the umbilical cord to inject these fluids.