Saturday, October 2, 2010

Saturday, October 2, 2010 3:49 PM, CDT

Not much to update yesterday, other than still throwing up randomly. And continued weaning down on the rate of the ventilator. We got moved to a larger PICU room around 11 last night and this one has a bathroom in it, so no waiting for a shower and carrying all my stuff down the hall for it :) The only downfall was carrying 38 days worth of "stuff" down the hall to the new room, thankfully Matt was still here to help with all that.
Oh, and Elizabeth got to meet her Uncle Matt for the first time! He left for Afghanistan in January after she was born, and was unable to see her since she was in NICU and the hospital rules only allowed parents/gparents to visit. She seemed a little confused about him but started smiling, so I think she might like him just a little ;)

This morning they were able to wean her totally off the rate of the ventilaotr so now she is on CPAP through the vent, just getting pressure and oxygen support. They will try to get the pressure and peep down on the vent over the next fews days but she seems to be doing really well right now. She's still throwing up today, so they did more bloodwork, which came back normal. So they are going to adjust her feedings and started giving her some meds that put good bacteria back in her gut. Part of the problem may be all the antibiotics shes had lately have killed the good and bad bacteria making it hard on her digestive system, so we will see how that goes. She has been playing and making lots of noise. The new trach size gave her a rather large leak around it so she can babble, laugh, and make noises pretty good, we still cant hear her crying very much but we are grateful for any noises we get.

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