Contact Precaution

Andy and I had a fun date over the weekend. Saturday afternoon/evening and on into EARLY Sunday morning, we attended the NASCAR Sharpie 500 race at Bristol Motor Speedway. It was fun to get out of the house and hang out together with other people from Andy's work and his clients. The race was amazing - intense at the end - and we had such a wonderful time together.

These two pictures show all the cars stopped because of a wreck that occurred on the speedway. I thought it was cool because they all stopped exactly where they were and it looked like someone had just frozen time because they weren't lined up or straightening themselves out on the track.


















The stands were PACKED. At the beginning, they did the wave around the stadium of 160,000+ fans...it set a Guinness world record for largest "wave."

















We found out yesterday that Kaela has c-diff - an infection that is in her bowels. Fortunately it is easily treatable with antibiotics, and she was already on the right one, so they're continuing that until it clears up. While we're not happy about the infection, it's nice to have an explanation of why her intestines were so dilated. Since this is a very communicable disease - she is now under "contact precautions" and everyone has to wear a gown and gloves to care for or hold her. Andy and I both were able to hold her today - a wonderful thing but VERY HOT as the gowns are plastic. Yuck!

Mommy dressed in her pretty blue gown and gloves holding Kaela, who, by the way, looks a LOT likd Christopher in this picture.

















Kaela has been off her oxygen for 2 1/2 days and is doing wonderful without it! The nurse practitioner was also finally able to get a PICC line in the correct position, as the first one they put in on Friday went bad already yesterday. This one should last a few weeks! Hopefully no more IVs and blood draws for awhile. We were aware they were going to try again, so we lined up a bunch of people to pray and finally the 5th time over the past two weeks was a charm! Thank you Lord for anwswering our prayers!!!!!

Kaela is also no longer wearing a temperature probe, which means the bed doesn't adjust itself to keep her at a certain temperature. It's set at a certain temperature and she has to work to maintain her own temp - though it's still warmer than room air.

Here are a few pictures of Kaela, dressed in a little preemie outfit from Josephs that fits 0-3lbs. She is right at 3 lbs, and it's perfect - so cute!

















Beautiful face - no tubes - no oxygen, no stickers, no feeding tubes.





























I took a walk with Christopher this afternoon, and he ran about 1/4 - 1/3 mile! Part way there he told me he wanted to run, then as he ran several blocks, he kept saying "Run. Fast runner. Good runner." It was pretty cute!