Lucas Camilo

Compared to the fireworks of last weekend’s extubation, things are pretty quiet around room 638 these days. The biggest excitement on Saturday was a visit from Tia Ashley, who got to hold Lucas for a while before heading back to New York in the afternoon. The little guy was pretty sleepy during the visit but he cracked his eye(s) a few times to check out who this new person holding him was (not mommy OR daddy!) Ashley looked forward to telling stories of the visit to Lucas’s 3 little cousins back in Seattle, who continue to send him pictures and cards almost daily.

Lucas’s weekend was also brightened by a snazzy, multi-colored, “unisex”, preemie vest. (Note to our mothers: Lucas’s aunt had special permission to buy this NICU-ready vest, but we’re not soliciting more such online purchases since at the rate he’s growing he’ll be sporting full-size newborn gear soon enough.) Lucas had a few “episodes” of dropping his heart rate and oxygen saturation on Saturday, but they most likely had to do with water or secretions clogging up his ventilator tube. So on the whole he had a mellow couple of days as we look forward to sitting down with doctors and specialists sometime next week to talk more about the plans ahead for Lucas.