Happy Halloween



Callie says "Happy Halloween!" I am trick or treating today as a Q-tip!

 

She was finally sleeping this morning for a little bit.

Doesn't she look like such a BIG girl too?

I am not sure what happened but I feel like she grew overnight!

 

The night started off fairly well, however she ended up having a rough night. Just very restless. We all know not much she wants to move, but she cannot as she is hooked up to so many things. Also, she really is not tolerating her CPAP mask for her sleep apnea so that does wake her from time to time and not to mention we all know how many times nurses are required to check on their patients and it is even more often in the ICU so that does not help. She did sleep well from 2:30-4:30. She is finally sleeping again.

 

We recently met with the ICU doctor. They have been monitoring her hemoglobin very closely. Ideally it should be around 11-13. She did have a blood transfusion during the surgery as the blood loss for the skull surgery is significant. Yesterday she was around 9 so they were on the fence what to do. It slowly has been decreasing, and it is currently at 7 so today they are going to do another transfusion. They said if she did not have a heart condition the would probably just continue to monitor her, however with her heart condition it is safest to transfuse her. They will do that this morning. Also she had a fever this morning or 101.4, which is slowly coming down right now. The doctor also decided to change her medication plan since she seems to soak up everything they give her. Due to the blood transfusion and the medication she will be spending the day and possibly the night in the ICU. We are still waiting for the surgeons to make their rounds and will find out if they plan to remove her drain and bandage today. I know Callie is hoping that they will as she is constantly trying to get it all off.

 

As for Zak he seems to be doing well at home with the Nurses and Family. On Monday night he slept almost 12 hours (going to bed at 6pm). I was sure to tell Callie that Zak went to sleep early as she was not there to keep him up. We definitely miss our little man. Both of us have never been away from him at the same time so it is hard on all of us. Thankfully it has been uneventful for him. Last week he kept us busy. He had an ear infection which is pretty common around our house. It was not clearing for the ENT gave us an antibiotic instead of the ear drops. He ended out having a allergic reaction and broke out in hives. This was not the first time that he had the medication either. He ended up getting his ear cultured and turned out is was MRSA again so they put him on different drops. It sounds like the new drops are helping.

 

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