DAY THREE

Finally some progress!!!

Today they gave Parker a swallowing test and found what Jen has suspected all along. He has been aspirating the formula. No wonder the poor boy doesn't like drinking! Jen said the amazing part was that the tester could immediately see what was happening but Parker wasn't coughing or crying at all. She said he is probably so used to it, that it has just become life as he knows it. So from now on, Jen is supposed to mix rice cereal with his formula so it won't aspirate so easily. The good news is that this is something he will outgrow but it is connected to the whole pulmonary problem. They are also thinking now that the pneumonia they thought they saw in the x-ray might actually have been milk in his lungs but I guess they will continue with the antibiotics anyway. Also, today a respiratory therapist came to the house and brought all the oxygen and equipment he will use when he comes home and trained Jen on what she will need to do.