Kyle News

Kyle recovered wonderfully from the eye surgery last Tuesday. He did not need to stay intubated or in an incubator. In fact, the doctor said that the procedure took about half the time it generally takes because it went so smoothly. Dr. Mendelblatt did say that Kyle will need regular eye exams for the rest of his life - lots of them during the first few years of his life. We will need to watch him closely for crossed eyes and other abnormal eye movement. The doctor said he would do a follow-up eye exam on Kyle the following Monday to make sure that the surgery was successful.


A couple of days after the surgery, I went to visit Kyle and found that they had moved him upstairs to NICU3 which they say means he's one step closer to discharge. He now has a crib right by a window and has a TV nearby. He'll be a couch potato (couch "tater tot") before he even comes home. He looked happy with the new location.

Monday night, the nurse had removed the nasal cannula just before I arrived to visit. Kyle was a happy camper without the cannula up his nose but his respiratory rate was pretty high so after I left, they put the cannula back. But at least I got to hold him without it for a little while. His high respiratory rate is also why I haven't gotten to breastfeed him yet. Monday was a pretty busy day for Kyle. Earlier in the day, he had gotten his follow-up eye exam and an X-ray of the lungs. Then, while I was still there visiting him, his Grandma Foreman (Chris' mom) came to visit and got to hold Kyle for the first time.

Yesterday afternoon, my mom and I went to a training class for the upcoming election's call center and just when we were leaving for home, I got a call from Kyle's nurse. She said that the doctor was concerned about Kyle's high respiratory rate and wants to do an MRI and MRA to see what's going on with his heart and lungs. Since MRI/MRA requires the patient to be still, and you can't just tell an infant to hold still, they need to put him under anesthesia again. The MRI/MRA is tomorrow morning (Thursday) around 8:00am and the doctor plans on doing an Echo while Kyle is still under anesthesia.