Ira's sick. Not "lung collapse" kind of sick which is what all of us with CDH babies worry about but something's up. His day yesterday was horrible. He had two friends visit him, Derrick and Bethany, and he didn't put on a good show at all. He cried most of the day and the tears were tears of pain, hurt and exhaustion. The last two nights have been the same. We called the night nurse first thing this morning and she sounded wiped out. Something is going around. They did a culture on his eye and it came back positive and the culture around his Broviac line came back positive, too. They put an IV in last night and are pumping him with antibiotics.

The baby across from us is the oldest in the NICU at six months. She was due to go home but got sick and her lung collapsed. She is re-intubated and on Nitric Oxide. Ugh. It's not a pretty scene around the NICU right now...but is it ever?