On the plus side the levels in Madeline's blood that they are monitoring (BUN and Creatin) have continued to go down closer to what they should be.
Her blood pressure was still very high and worrisome so they gave her two different blood pressure medications and will continue to give one of them every six hours and the other every four as needed. The blood pressure seems to be lower at this point in time .
She is STILL not processing her food even though they lowered what they gave her even more (2 cc's every 3 hrs) - She continues to have residual left in her system and they did hold her last feeding instead of giving it to her. It is very discouraging that there is no progress in this area.
We are very tired and feeling low tonight. At dinner we recounted her labor story and it was a pretty difficult memory. It is saddening to think about how special that moment was supposed to be and how frightening it was. I (Rachael) -feel such a loss - like that special experience was just taken away and now can never be replaced . Obviously- the only thing that really matters is Madeline getting better and out of the hospital- it is just traumatic and painful thinking about what is supposed to be the happiest moment of your life. We are so longing for some type of 'normal' happy, regular baby-parent time. Need to hold our baby, put her to bed in her own bed, be at home, watch her progress like a 'normal' baby. It's just a hard night tonight.
Thanks for all the continued love and prayers. Also please send out a special prayer for Madeline's new roommate tonight. Much of the evening in her room was spent doing some sort of procedure on the new baby. Not sure what was going on but both the doctor's and parents looked very upset. Poor baby. We'll call her 'A'
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There are no words meaningful enough to express how sad we are for all the sorrow you have experienced so far but we pray that one look at Madeline's eyes will tell you how special you are to her: She loves you!
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Prayers for her tiny roomate and also the 9 year old you spoke of so warmly earlier this week. Any updates?
Hugs,
Noelle said it all right there. May god continue to cradle you in his arms. You have surely been a blessing to me through all of this. Someday I wonder and wish if I would get to meet the baby girl that helped pull my head above the water in a time that I desperately needed to see god do wonders. I don't know you but I really love you all so deeply in my hearts. Tell megan I said hi next time u talk to her :) she sure has some wonderful friends.
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