COLD!!!

Minus 40 today with the wind chill! And yet, we have this amazing sunshine sparkling on the new fallen snow. Although cold, Manitoba really is beautiful in the winter! Looking forward to a white Christmas!
Noah is doing well, other than his usual upper respiratory stuff. We premedicated before the Ampho today and it went a bit better. Still miserable, but at least his temp didn't climp quite so high. He WAS up to his full tube feed rate (33mL/hr), but the last few days we have been having to decrease it, as he is losing too much bile through his gtube drain. So we are at 26mL/hr now and his gut seems to be settling out. So we will sit tight at this rate for now. If we have to go down anymore on his rate, we will have to restart the basics TPN. We'll see what his tummy decides to do over the next few days. Noah had bloodwork and TPN clinic yesterday and despite all this, his electrolytes aren't looking too bad. His kidneys are also holding their own. He is scheduled for bloodwork again on Monday to continue to watch things closely with his gut not behaving quite right.
The good news is that yesterday Noah got his portable Intermate to run his D5W during the day. It looks like a baby bottle attached to him. So with that and his portable feeding pump, he is now pole free during the daytime!! It makes life a whole lot easier! Despite the cold, today I was able to take him out to Superstore for the first time in a long time! He loved the outing!!