saturday 6/8/2013

It has been an uneventful weekend for Ava...which is good. She still has the repoggle tube out and is handling her secretions pretty well-not perfectly, but well. All through the weekend her blood pressure has been on the high side, not enough to be medicated, but enough that it needs to be looked into. So   they were thinking of doing a renal (kidneys) ultrasound this week. They said kidney stones can cause a high bp-but she doesn't have any pain, which you would expect with stones. Surgery also wanted therapy to consult Monday to determine a plan for beginning oral feedings-or at least examining if she is even ready for them, so we may be looking at another swallow study.