Duncan is still on the CPAP, he has made it about 4 days which is really good. He gave us a little scare today though. He has been working hard to breath the last two days. His oxygen level hasn't been too high the last few days, but then today she had to go up to about 62% oxygen which is a lot for him. So she finally said to the NP how much higher am going to go on this. Well they decided that they needed to do an x-ray and they found that his left lung is barley working, it is whited out as they call it. That means he isn't getting enough oxygen into that lung. His right lung looked really good, but it was doing all the breathing. So they are going to do a breathing treatment with him and they are keeping him on his right side to try to get the left doing what it is supposed to do. They are trying to not have to inti bate him again, but they will if they have to. He has lung disease, which is scar tissue on the lungs. When people are given artificial breathing they most likely develop this. It just damages the lungs to a degree, luckily for babies they grow new lung all the time until they are 8 years old, this can happen to adults too, but we wouldn't grow new lung. This is very common for preemies, I had already looked it up and new it was a possibility that he would get it, in fact I think all preemies that are given a lot of oxygen get this. It is also referred to BPN. Most children out grow it by the time they are 2. He just wants to keep us on our toes. We were getting a little too comfortable with his progress, so he probably thought he wasn't getting enough attention. Justin and my dad gave him a blessing and I pray that Heavenly Father will just continue to bless this little boy. He has so much already.
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