Our journey through dealing with preeclampsia, HELPP syndrome, premature birth, Necrotizing Enterocolitis, the Jejunostomy procedure, the trials, tribulations, joys & sorrows of the process & some interesting bumps in the road.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Zoey moves rooms
First off on Sally's results. Hemoglobin went from 8.3 to 9.8, which is still too low, should be in the 11-15 for acceptable, but at least it's going in the right direction. Liver function is up to par, & no risk for cardiac issues from the preeclampsia at this time & her platelets went from 56,000 to 292,000 in a week, so obviously the iron supplements have worked! Sally's energy has also went significantly up, which I can definitely tell as her amount of talking & volume has reached near her regular amount.......... : ) So that's a relief, for some of us :) She has another appointment to do actual check on her blood pressure tomorrow to make sure they didn't reduce her medication too much.
For our errands today we picked up Zoey's birth certificate from the records department of Olmsted County records, so that was kinda fun to have our very own child's funky looking paper & bad watermarks.
At the NICU today, Zoey was moved rooms. I'll be completely & utterly honest: I'm not happy about it. While we do have a window spot, it's right next to another baby "stand," no separation between the families, a wheeled separator thing that is worthless & see-through, & less space, so the nurses are crawling over each other & us to get back & forth to Zoey. While it does mean Zoey is doing better that she can be moved from her own "suite," she's still in the tube, still on all the monitors, etc etc etc. It has more to do with staffing & efficiency that way. So me, not being the smallest person in the world, am not happy. Luckily I have the eternal optimist of a wife on near all things so I just take it & let her convince me it's okay (but not really lol) I got to give Zoey her second bath, & dress her in her first jammie's!!! So that curtailed a bit of my frustration as we wrapped up things for the night. Good night!
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