To Pee or not to pee

Thursday, 3/6/14

Tonight Dr. Araya a Pediatric Nephrologist came in to see Carter.  Carter must have known he was coming because tonight he started peeing more and his sodium has started to rise.  Dr. Araya thinks this issue was a combination of the Indocin that was used to treat the PDA and the fact that his umbilical cord line was removed which did have fluid (that contained sodium) going into it.  The Indocin has the potential to reduce urine output so as he retained fluid it diluted the sodium that was in his body.  He is going to continue to monitor Carter's labs but thinks this will resolve without treatment.

He is doing well on the ventilator but does not seem to like the pulmonary therapy.  The respiratory therapist uses a small tool that basically massages his back to free up any mucous in the lungs so that they can suction it out.  We can't wait for tomorrow so we can spend the whole weekend with him.