July 29th, 2007



Megan must have known that I was telling everything that she was having a good day and decided to get some more attention..


When I called last night, the nurse was in the process of re-intubating her because she pulled out her vent tube. They were just going to leave it out, but she was having some digestive problems at the same time. She was constipated yesterday and got a small tear in her rectum. ( I know in 20 years she will be so mad at me for writing that!) Anyway, the nurse believes that is what is causing a small streak of blood in her stool. They are still watching it to be sure, though. Her abdomen was also a little enlarged and loopy again. However, by the time I called again at 2:30am, that had gone down and she was doing better with her feedings.



They didn't alter her feedings at all which is good. By this morning, she was doing well and getting no residual from her feedings. She was just constipated. Her abdomen is doing fine and is soft. She still has a small streak of blood in her stool, but it is now barely showing positive.



Her oxygen was back down to 30 and we hope to see that continue to decrease throughout the day. I guess she just wants to give Mommy and Daddy a few more gray hairs!



We are going to see her around 2pm, so we'll see how she is doing!

Our visit went pretty well with Megan. Just before we got there, they removed her PICC line from her arm, so she was still a bit mad about that. She had also just gotten her 2pm feeding which was going well.

Her machine did go off quite a bit while we were there. The nurse showed me how she liked to have her head rubbed. It was nice that Bob and I could do that to soothe her. She looked great and very comfortable. Her feedings are up to 14cc every 2 hours. She is now eating over 2 bottles a day!

They still feel that her progress is good!