Mary's week has been a little more eventful than the other two, but not by much! =)

Mary had a head ultrasound and an eye exam this week.  Both tests came back ok.  Since she's so small there's still a good chance her eyes will change, so they're going to be checking her every week until she matures a bit more.  On Tuesday they said she was slightly anemic, so they're giving her vitamins with extra iron to see if that helps.  A few days after the eye exam they noticed some gunk in Mary's left eye.  They took a culture of it and will have her on eye drops for 5 days to see if it clears up.  We noticed today that her eye already looked better after only one day of eye drops.  No results on the culture yet, though.  They started fortifying the milk Mary gets so it has more calories in it.  This should help her gain weight and grow more quickly.  She is up to 20 mL (4 teaspoons) at each feeding and now weighs 2 lbs 7.7 ounces.  She is no longer on Lasix, so it appears that she didn't have as much water weight as we thought.  She has continued to gain weight at a good rate this past week, so hopefully we'll start to see some growth accompany that.  Mary is still having a few apnea episodes, but not as many or as severe as before.  They will look at taking the PICC line out sometime next week as long as she continues to do well.  She really seems to have turned a corner and is doing so much better!