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Morgan had another good day today. She is off all of the medications that were treating her blood pressure and blood sugar issues. And she is no longer on the morphine that prevented her from fighting against the oscillator. It was nice to see her moving around again since the morphine had kept her pretty sedated and inactive. So, for now, she is only recieving her IV fluids and lipids for nutrition but no other medications.

In other progress, Mom and I saw her open her eyes for the first time this afternoon. Well it started out with just the right eye, but by the time we left she was peeking through the left one as well. This was quite a relief considering the number of eye patches that can be seen at a one of her parents extended family gatherings, *cough MOM *cough. (Okay it was only two, but that's still two more than expected.) Anyway, family secrets notwithstanding, today was definitely an exciting step for all of us.



The next step seems to be a decision by the doctors on when to treat her PDA. It's a relatively common problem in preemies and the doctor has told us that if he thinks it is impeding her progress they will start her on indomethacin to close the open vessel rather than wait for it to close on its own. If the medicine does not work, she would require surgery which is also not uncommon in preemies as early as Morgan.

We were also told that if she continues to do as well as she has the past two days they would probably begin giving her breast milk soon. This would be another small step in the right direction. However, if they decide to treat her PDA they would need to hold off on the feedings since the medicine could interfere with her ability to digest anything. Hopefully we'll have a better idea of where she stands with all of this tomorrow.