Slow day

Micah seems to be feeling better today. He issued a number of smiles (including at his aunt, uncle, and cousins who were here visiting from Georgia). He seemed to be less comfortable in the afternoon.

Because it's Monday, that means we have a new GI doctor on service. We didn't see him until 4:30 this afternoon. In a nutshell, he ordered another belly x-ray. This was, apparently, "unremarkable." Sadly, he didn't come by again after those results came in. And he didn't put anything in Micah's chart about what to do if his x-ray didn't appear to show anything significant. So the rate of Micah's feeding has not increased in 24 hours. We basically gave an entire day to Children's Hospital today. I'm glad to have a new set of eyes trying to figure out what's wrong with him. But I don't want to repeat a bunch of tests without making forward progress either. I can't write any more about it without fuming so I'll stop here.

Down syndrome fact of the day: Individuals with Down syndrome are 15-20 times more likely to develop leukemia than individuals without an extra chromosome. Scary.