Mason's Got a Hybrid

No, not the car. He's too young to drive, silly!

Actually, Mason started today with more difficulty breathing/increased oxygen needs. We did end up talking to the nephrologist late this morning and decided to bring Mason back up to the 4mg 3x/day (yesterday I said 0.4, but I had it wrong -- good thing I'm not the pharmacist!!). We know that will dry him out, but that's were we've got to start again. She also talked about increasing the calories in his food a little more again. More than likely, he will end up with some sort of hybrid plan between the 3 mg 3x/day and the 4 mg 3x/day. Once we land on the right dose, we will also start talking about weaning the steroid again -- for now, he's staying at a higher dose

By the end of the day, he was needing a little less oxygen again and will hopefully keep up that trend. We've adjusted when the lasix is given so hopefully he won't need to play catch up on getting rid of fluid first thing in the morning.

We know for sure Mason's bought us at least a few more days in the hospital. Bill's thinking we might be able to go home by the end of the weekend. I'm thinking at least into the middle of next week. Maybe we should have a pool going...