Monday, April 13, 2009 A Few Changes For Today

Shailee is doing better today, she is back down to 21% oxygen which is way better then yesterday. The EEG still hasn't been read so we don't know about the seizures yet, but i should be able to find out about the test results sometime tomorrow. Shailee hasn't has an antidiuretic today, and she is still having secretions, but not as bad. they feel that that she may be having so many secretions due to irritation from the tubes in her throat. Her labs today have looked good so far, and in a couple of days they will be doing a follow up kidney and bladder x-ray to make sure they are still looking good. She was recasted (third time) today and her foot is still looking good. she is also up to 49cc's of formula every 8 hours, and they have stopped the tpn and lipids through the iv so she is getting all her nourishment from the formula now! she still has the iv in though and they wont pull it until she is eating a little over 2 ounces of formula per feeding. she does still have clear iv fluid running in her slowly but it is because she has the heart medication that she gets in the iv and it is less then a half of a cc so they have to have fluids running so her pic line doesn't clot up or they would have to start poking her all the time again. Her heart doctor was there today and they are talking about lowering the dosage of the heart medication to see how she will do with it, so if they do, lets pray that she does well with the lower dose. her surgeon also looked at her belly today and said that it still is healing well. other then that she hasn't been doing much, she has stayed stable today and didn't have anymore spells today, and she has been much less irritable. I will update more again tomorrow.