Friday

Today has been a quieter day, and we have been given goals to reach for Ada to be discharged.  She will need to be weaned off of oxygen, or more likely to a lower level.  She may still need oxygen at home for the next few weeks as her body adjusts.  Secondly: feeding.  She has not been eating much, and the concern of the doctors is not so much that she wouldn't gain weight during this stay, but that she wouldn't be receiving adequate nutrition to heal up her wound quickly.  Today she received a NG tube in her nose that leads to her tummy, so any milk that she doesn't drink in a feeding gets put in her tummy anyways!  I bet that parents of junior high boys would also like to have the use of an NG tube when serving split pea soup or boiled dinner (right, Mom?!)

Well, our little lady is a champ.  Seriously, I am one proud momma.  The first feeding with the tube in, she whipped through the 80 ml of milk, and we had nothing left to push down the tube!  An OT and a speech therapist came to watch Ada drink and give us some suggestions, and they had nothing to say - they called her a poster child!  My baby girl!  The next feeding wasn't quite as good, so we used the tube, and will do so for awhile to just get Ada up to her caloric needs.  Meanwhile the rest of us are having no trouble meeting our daily caloric needs, so that is awesome.  Thanks, French Toast and Grilled Cheese!

Then Ada had her IV pulled out and a shot in both thighs.  All in a day's work.  We're proud of her, thankful for the care here, and in general running on caffeine and your prayers, so keep one of the two coming...
 Love for today!