Stabilized but not out of the vent yet

Today, we were there all day. We got there at 7:00 AM so that we could be there for support as Jonna is having a bad couple of days, and since I did not sleep last night, no reason not to go ahead on up there. So I am working on 48 hours no sleep.

She still had some lungs alveoli issues, but is improving S....L....O.....W......L.....Y. It is going to take a few days to even get back to where we were when we were coasting.

We sat there all day watching her have issues. She is having that "slap and gas" (CPT and albuterol) and it is loosening up a lot of gunk. One time she got really bad and required bag resuscitation. It is par for the course, she just has to grow and grow and stop moving.

She is up to 5 cc's on the milk and that is good, maybe she will be getting fat for us soon. Everyone think nice "balloon" thoughts to get those lungs working. That is all we need is lungs. Imagine millions and millions of tiny balloons sucking in air. If we can get her feel all this, maybe these sacs can open up and start working. Oh yeah, also think of fat. She needs fat on her. So think of balloons in lard. Lots of tiny balloons in lots of lard. Yeah.

Oh yeah, it seems that some people don't know that we add pictures EVERYDAY!! I will now start putting the pictures of the day on a picture of the day page and then they will be added permanently to the week pages. But until then, go check out week four, it has the latest pictures added EVERYDAY!

Think of fat, look for fat in the pictures......