2 Brothers Layne

A pH check was done today to verify if the prevased-i don't know if i spelled that correctly-, to see if it was working. They put a ng down his nose to his stomach, sucked out some of the stomach contents and checked the pH. The pH was 1, which is as acidic as it comes. He received treatments of prevased and zantac to get that pH up to 6 as quickly as possible. Mom and Nana-Grandma Layne, said that Jonah was crying and almost had everyone else in tears because he was in pain and there was nothing anyone could do to comfort him and take away the pain- at least right then. To let every one know Jonah has at least 2 major obsticles to overcome before he came come home with us: He has to come down from 6 liters to 1 leter or less and to have his G-tube healing and functioning properly. Mentioning the G-tube, it has been leaking, and with the pH being 1 has had the potential of burning the skin around the G-tube because it has been leaking. On the positive side, Jonah's skin ha...

Today was a pretty good day. No change is good news. Jonah stayed up late last night playing with the nurse, as a result he slept the most of the morning, "Little Toad!" says mommy. More blood was taken to check for bacteria growth, we will find out in a couple of days if this is a positive result, bacteria is still in his blood, or negative result, the antibiotics are doing the trick. More waiting, and more progression. This is a good place to be!!!