day three ::

 

It's amazing to me how resilient Leighton is!  Today, overall, was a good day.  It started out a little rocky, she had to have her labs drawn [not fun], then re-drawn less than an hour later [really not fun].  She's a hard stick when it comes to blood draws, even when they send their best from the IV team.  So we kind of dread them.  Even more than her blood draws - she hates, HATES taking her tylenol orally.  Kind of ironic since it's probably the easiest [and tastiest] med she takes.  She literally chokes it down, we can't believe how b.a.d. she hates it.  Hopefully she gets used to it because it's the only pain med you go home with! After a waking up at 4am for labs, x-rays, vital checks and yucky tylenol - this little chick was quite frankly not a very happy.  We felt so bad for her! Her little eyes would look at every person that came in her room nervous they'd "do something" to her.  Luckily, kids forgive quickly :)

We're happy that her chest x-ray came back good and the drainage had gone down so we were able to remove her chest tubes [[YAY]] :: that's pretty painful, but she has be oh so much more happy since.  She can move more freely and even tried to "play" a little this afternoon.  We were able to hold her and snuggle on her a little.  It felt good to be able to love on her!  We are seeing such a huge improvement in her disposition and behavior, I can tell she's starting to feel lots better. :)

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