Back off Oxygen

Anders is down half an ounce below seven pounds today. He will remain on lasix for the next couple of days at least. They have reduced the calories in his feedings. He is on the formula mixture that he will have when he leaves the hospital.
Anders was taken off his oxygen at noon. He made it up to 30 mils by noon. He will not go below 30. It is a baseline for him. He crashed after going off the oxygen. Anders took 5 mils at 3 pm and 10 mils at 6 pm. Hopefully he does better tonight. He did quite well last night, which was a first for the overnight. Of course, he had the oxygen assistance then.
I think that getting people to sign in is part of a new policy that was slowly revealed today. Due to H1N1, we now have to sign in and Anders can have only two non-parental visitors. My mom and Dorene will be Anders two visitors. I guess we will also have to fill out some sort of daily medical report upon arriving. That has not started yet. I understand that it will ask questions about when we last coughed, sneezed, or blew our noses.
Not that much funny happens to us these days, but one thing did strike us as amusing. We met the Southdale speech language pathologist. She has the bearing of a doctor and the hours of a banker. She sauntered in with her white lab coat and started talking in that authoritative vague way doctors do. Then she revealed her title, made a few Maddenesque observations ("The more food he takes in, the sooner he gets out of the hospital. Brett Favre. BOOM!), and then said she would see us Tuesday as she has a 5 day weekend to follow last week's 4 day weekend.
Anna thinks she might have been better than the last one, even though it was obvious no one liked this woman. The other woman, about whom I did not write since we met last Friday and I took the weekend off, was just like Kathleen The Bad Lactation Specialist. She was really defensive, unsure of herself, and ultimately self and patient defeating. I'll never forget how we all bonded at the parent to parent meeting at the NICU ragging on Kathleen (but she did deserve it, to get that many rattled and shell-shocked complete stranger parents to bond so quickly over something was quite a feat).
So, in conclusion, I don't know. I guess they might put Anders back on oxygen if he feeding go poorly between now and tomorrow afternoon. The nurse told Anna that the last couple of weeks are the worst for long termers like us. I'll take it, if these really are the last couple of weeks.
I feel like Lando Calrissian after making that deal with Darth Vader, you know the one that gets worse all the time. At some point, I'm going to contact my bald personal assistant with my watch and we are going to start taking prisoners.