Day Eight

For the record, Shawna's updates are accurate, I just tend to include every little detail because when I do them I'm bored. She hasn't been leaving anything out, it's just that I picked a day to do the update yesterday when a lot of things happened all at once. Kelby had a kinda rough day yesterday to follow her night, but we had her morphine turned up a little bit more and that seemed to help. She's started to enjoy being rocked and even asks for it sometimes by saying "rock-a-bye?". She was also really low on plateletts yesterday which explains why there was so much more blood in her drool. The plateletts are responsible for clotting and stopping bleeding, so if she's low then every little sore will bleed and bleed with nothing to stop it. She got a transfusion of plateletts yesterday afternoon, and may get more today, so now there is little or no blood in the goo she drools out. The fever is hanging on so that adds to her irritability I suppose, but she is pretty calm most of the time unless someone messes with her. She had a pretty restful night last night, only stirring when she needed her diaper changed for vital signs taken. She's funny because she is such a good girl for the nurses. Usually when she hears the velcroe on the blood pressure cuff she doesn't even turn over to see what's going on she just sticks her arm up for them. Same thing when they ask to get her temperature. She used to hate the little oxygen sensor they tape on a finger or toe to get a reading, but she even will stick her foot or hand out for that on her own now. If she has socks on she has to have it done on her finger though, because she absolutely hates to have her socks taken off of her feet. Anyway, we're on day 8 so hopefully only a couple more days of this and she'll turn back upward before she gets too much more uncomfortable. Most doctors and nurses are pretty impressed with how she's doing compared to how she could be doing though. By the way, we've told the docs, but if you Group Health Eastside nurses are reading this it applies to you too...we really miss you. Not that they're not very good here, but we get a new nurse every 8 hours and have rarely had the same one twice. We're looking forward to the time when Kelby can be back in the care of the Eastside hospital because she knows you so much better and you know us so much better which just makes everything better :)