Colleen and Daddy enjoy a weekend together
Colleen was with Daddy most of the weekend. Many hours in the playroom now that she is willing to keep her mask on. Also, hours of reading.
She finally began eating again. In addition to chocolate milk she ate some banana and some peanut and butter sandwich. Yippee! She is still having the "runs" but not excessively, and she has NOT vomited since Friday. They returned one of her IV meds to oral Sunday night, so we'll try round two of "keeping it down". Sunday morning, the doctors were again talking about her going home within the week, but it is still one day at a time. As we've heard this before, we are not going to get overly excited.
Colleen had a good weekend, although at 10 PM Sunday night she suddenly complained about stomach/belly pain. It was sudden and severe, she had tears, couldn't get comfortable, and her nurse called the doctor. Just before he came she got tylenol and a warmed compress, which soothed her enough to let the doctor examine her. Nothing out of the ordinary was "palpated" and she went to sleep shortly after that.
On Friday her hemoglobin was 9.9 and she usually gets transfused below 10.0, but her doctor held off to see what would happen. Saturday morning she only dropped to 9.8, so she was not transfused again to see what she would do. Sunday morning she jumped up to 10.2! She is now making her own hemoglobin! This morning she is at 10.1, white blood cells are 5.3 (6-15 is normal, she was 6.1 Sunday), and her platelets are 98 (were 110 on Sunday). No platelet transfusions unless she drops below 40, so it appears that she is now making her own platelets too.
In the meantime, God blessed us with NEW friends who just happen to have a housekeeping service. Mark and I met Lisa at a foster parent training class in September. Lisa and her husband Darin are foster parents for the past seven years and have experienced much of what we've been through recently. On Saturday, they came to our home and we paid them to clean top to bottom. They really earned their money, and spent eleven hours helping get our home ready for Colleen, and it was their 10th wedding anniversay too, we found out. They are Christians and if anyone wants their cleaning information, I'd be happy to share it. They are definately good stewards of their skill. They washed ceilings and walls, doors, and floors, everything (and I mean everything) got dusted, polished, scrubed, cleaned, even windows! Wow. Darin even took a few minutes to give Ben a "talk" when he got a little "out of sorts" at one point. God bless Lisa and Darin.
Please continue to pray for Colleen and for our family.
Susan
She finally began eating again. In addition to chocolate milk she ate some banana and some peanut and butter sandwich. Yippee! She is still having the "runs" but not excessively, and she has NOT vomited since Friday. They returned one of her IV meds to oral Sunday night, so we'll try round two of "keeping it down". Sunday morning, the doctors were again talking about her going home within the week, but it is still one day at a time. As we've heard this before, we are not going to get overly excited.
Colleen had a good weekend, although at 10 PM Sunday night she suddenly complained about stomach/belly pain. It was sudden and severe, she had tears, couldn't get comfortable, and her nurse called the doctor. Just before he came she got tylenol and a warmed compress, which soothed her enough to let the doctor examine her. Nothing out of the ordinary was "palpated" and she went to sleep shortly after that.
On Friday her hemoglobin was 9.9 and she usually gets transfused below 10.0, but her doctor held off to see what would happen. Saturday morning she only dropped to 9.8, so she was not transfused again to see what she would do. Sunday morning she jumped up to 10.2! She is now making her own hemoglobin! This morning she is at 10.1, white blood cells are 5.3 (6-15 is normal, she was 6.1 Sunday), and her platelets are 98 (were 110 on Sunday). No platelet transfusions unless she drops below 40, so it appears that she is now making her own platelets too.
In the meantime, God blessed us with NEW friends who just happen to have a housekeeping service. Mark and I met Lisa at a foster parent training class in September. Lisa and her husband Darin are foster parents for the past seven years and have experienced much of what we've been through recently. On Saturday, they came to our home and we paid them to clean top to bottom. They really earned their money, and spent eleven hours helping get our home ready for Colleen, and it was their 10th wedding anniversay too, we found out. They are Christians and if anyone wants their cleaning information, I'd be happy to share it. They are definately good stewards of their skill. They washed ceilings and walls, doors, and floors, everything (and I mean everything) got dusted, polished, scrubed, cleaned, even windows! Wow. Darin even took a few minutes to give Ben a "talk" when he got a little "out of sorts" at one point. God bless Lisa and Darin.
Please continue to pray for Colleen and for our family.
Susan
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