Sugery recovery update #4

Summer is still continuing to get better! I went to visit Wednesday and she had been weaned some more on the vent…By the time I left, she was at 26% and was starting to really breathe on her own. She started opening her eyes and had her 2nd eye exam. Her eyes have not changed…they still look great J She is now between stage 2-3 of 3 stages…the peripheral vision. I decided to give Morgan a break from babysitters and she came with me. I was a little worried about how she would do, but she did pretty well…thanks to 2 cartons of chocolate milk! Morgan loves to talk about going to see “baby Supber” all the time. By the time we got there, she told me she didn’t want to see “Supber” after all, but was very excited by the big giraffes in the lobby, outside, on the roof of the building, etc.

You can see how much her swelling has gone down around her neck...the rest is mainly her own naurally grown double chin...and it looks like we have a thumb sucker on our hands!

I went again today, Sept. 11th. Summer has been weaned down to 24% oxygen and should have the breathing tube taken out today! Yeah! J Her Hydro cortisone has been reduced to once every 24 hours and no longer receive any dopamine (for her blood pressure). The only concern at this point is her incision…it is open and oozing a little. Her nurse is fairly confident it will heal up nicely lets hope she is right! She is also showing some signs of jaundice from the TPN and lack of food. Hopefully she will be ready to eaten through her feeding tube very soon…her intestines will start processing the food (hopefully breast milk) which will reduce the jaundice. The nurse told me Summer was passing gas today, so thought she would be able to use the intestines as soon as she is infection free, yeah!