Kaela has continued to improve today. Her x-rays through the night and this morning improved and the doctor stopped the order to do them every few hours. They'll do one more in the morning to make sure everything is ok, and then decide if they want to start feeding her milk again.
She's continuing to get the antibiotics and they wait for the results from the blood culture which should be in tomorrow or Wednesday.
Her general appearance is much improved - she looks so much more peaceful and less worn out, and her skin color looks better too. She's had a couple brady/apnea spells, but not as many as yesterday, and she was back off her oxygen for the hour we were up there tonight (even though the cannula is still in her nose - they had turned it off to see how she would do). She also managed to gain another ounce despite all that's going on - yeah IV TPN and Lipids! - so she now weighs 2lb 13oz.
Her hemaglobin and hematocrit is getting pretty low. She will get a shot on Wednesday to try to stimultae her bone marrow to produce some more red blood cells, but the doctor told Andy to go ahead and get his blood drawn and on standby as she will probably need a transfusion in the next week. So...right now we're praying that her little body will take care of itself as we would rather her NOT have to have a transfusion.
Thank you for your continued prayers for our precious girl. It was hard today since she is still recovering from everything, so they wouldn't let us hold her either time we were in today.
Trusting in Him,
Rachel
EDIT: Rachel and I had to add this little anecdote from this morning, because today was hard in a lot of ways and I'm convinced that God has given Christopher the gift to keep us all smiling. If our life were a sitcom, here's how the script from breakfast would have read.
Daddy: Christopher, make sure you eat your breakfast so you can be a big boy!
Christopher: *eating*
Daddy: *BUUURRP!*
Christopher: (looks outside for a coming storm) hehe...Funder!
=).
Love Andy
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