Sunday 7/28/2013

Woohoo. She's down to the high flow nasal cannula now. She's getting 4 liters of flow and is on room air or just above. I was surprised that her versed and morphine doses hadn't been touched (adjusted) in days so I requested a wean on at least one of them, so the NP weaned the morphine frequency. The arterial line in her left wrist was removed, which is good from an infection standpoint, but now she has to get poked for blood instead of being able to draw it from that line. Her residual out of the NG has steadily decreased so she should be able to start feeds as soon as tomorrow possibly. Her little colostomy bag had green bile in it as well as gas so it appears things are moving in there, at least a little. We discovered that she is next in line to join the group of long term babies which means we get a little more consistency with NP's AND first dibs on cool therapy toys like an ipad attached to her bed. Ava has pretty complex medical issues right now, comparatively..and it apparent by the group of babies we are rooming with, that we are the long term folks. We are the last of the mohicans that are still stuck with the VRE transmission precautions. As new babies are admitted they are put in "clean" rooms and they don't have to gown up.  She gave me the CUTEST smile today!! I'm just in awe and in love!!