Another up and down day. But a much better day than yesterday. When we got here around 3:30, Frankfort woke up. You can tell he wasn't in as good of a mood as of lately. He napped a little in Alex's arms, but was mostly awake until 6:30ish. He was very unhappy at that point and cried pretty well for about 15 minutes. He then fell asleep. We think he cried because he was so tired and fighting it. Alex's mother came up and visited tonight. We ate dinner, came back and he started getting grumpy. Eventually he passed gas, had a bowel movement and fell asleep. I am almost certain he has belly pains. A hypersensitive gi track like his father. He also had a fever of 101.1 degrees. He is already on antibiotics so it is hard to find a cause. They gave him Tylenol and unwrapped him for a little bit and it broke quickly. Alex and I started to watch a movie when the nurse popped in and said the surgeons wanted blood drawn and a urine sample to help diagnose the fever, thinking it may be an infection. They pull a urine sample basically the same way as giving a catheter. As it is difficult for us to be in the room for that extreme of procedure, we went and watched our movie in another room. We came back in around 11 and he has been sound asleep this whole time. When we got here earlier today and Alex was holding him, his bpm got down to the high 50's. Now they are back up in the 70-80's on average. The nurse just counted breaths per minute and he was down to 70 again. This morning they bumped his oxygen/air mixture back up to 40% mix because he got upset with all the Doctors and Nurses messing with him constantly for about an hour. But they since dropped it back down to 30% mix. There are 2 different numbers when it come to the oxygen. One is the percentage of the oxygen and room air mixture that is actually oxygen. The other number is volume of oxygen pumped per minute. Up until today they have had him on 3 Liters per minute and now they have him down to 2 liters per minute. So he is improving. Alex and I have had a better day, too. We caught up on some sleep and came in today with a better attitude. Yesterday was a hard day because I let it be. If I keep a smile on my face then it's easier to have a smile on my face. If you haven't noticed Frankie tends to wear socks on his hands because he likes to pull things out. Also we are prepping him to be a puppeteer when he grows up.
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