Onto the Next Challenge

Yesterday was a bit of a mixed bag of good news and so-so news for Luke. He had a LOT of tests done, but handled them all in stride like he has been.
The good news of the day was that the second round of medicine for his PDA valve worked and the echo scan showed that it is now closed. (Huge cheer here). While we're very excited to hear this, we know there is a chance it can re-open and need another dose of medicine, but we're going to remain hopeful that this will not be the case.
The so-so news was that his white blood cell count has been rising and according to the doctors could mean one of two things. 1) He was just born with a low count and now it is rebounding to normal or 2) it could be signs of a growing infection of some sort. This second possibility was also somewhat supported by the discovery of a small amount of secretions in his mouth which they took a sample of and will be analyzing over the weekend. Because of this worry about the possible infections, he had to get a whole slew of tests done and samples drawn including a form of spinal tap, which the doctors say he handled well and shouldn't have been too painful for him.
Saturday should be a less eventful day for him in terms of tests as they analyze everything done on Friday so he should be able to rest. We will know more about the possible infection in the next day or two, but we're hopeful that it won't be anything serious or even better, nothing at all.