Holding pattern (part II)

Not much to report one way or another today. Allan is still in the hospital. It seems that the doctors are tweaking his medicines and formula. As someone said, this is all more art than science. They've changed up his diuretics and are adding canola oil to his formula (to add calories without adding much additional fluid). We'll see how that works and probably change it all again tomorrow. Still, Allan is working on charming the peds ward now. He feels fine and has been very awake and alert. Jennifer came and loved on him for about 3 hours today. Dr. Desai came for a visit, too. Then, late in the afternoon, two student nurses (Whitney and Kristen) came for a visit. (The only thing that may be better than nurses is student nurses. Griffith would be jealous if he knew.) Everyone agrees that he is beautiful, sweet and charming. He is doing better with his bottle feeding and, given enough time and proper distraction, manages about 2 ounces at a go.
Griffith had a good day, too. Aunt Kathy came up for a visit and fell in line with Caitlin, Angie, Cheryl, etc. etc. I'm not sure that she did any thing other than hold him all day. Unfortunately, we are going to have to limit her exposure to him because when I got home they were watching Kato Kaelin's show An Eye for an Eye. This is not exactly the mental stimulation we were looking for. Even Dr. Phil would have been an improvement. It was too cool and rainy to go for a walk but we sat on the front porch in the swing and watched the rain while singing camp songs. We had a pretty good time but I'm not sure the neighbors appreciated my tuneless rendition of Rise and Shine and Boom, Boom. Last night we tried the skip-the-three-o'clock again. It is a slow process. He had his nine and then didn't go to sleep until nearly 11. I didn't get him up for midnight and, when I awoke at 3 and he hadn't stirred, I was convinced that he had died in the night and woke him (abruptly). We'll give it another crack tonight.