day four ::

 

Our little lucky charm on St. Patrick's Day! I've never been one to celebrate this holiday, but they sure try to take care of everyone here. For the older kids they had little green baby leprechaun footprints and "pots of gold" periodically spread throughout the 3rd floor for a little treasure hunt and made rainbow crafts. It's pretty neat how much they try and create a sense of normalcy for the children who are here. We even had to sneak a little green bow on Leighton so she wouldn't get pinched. 

Leighton had an okay day.  We did get her first smiles so can tell she's starting to feel better, hooray! We missed that slobbery grin.  But she's struggling to eat and loosing weight.  Her admittance weight was 8.4 K and was down to 7.82.  We're working on getting her to eat [and go potty] :: and for the first time we have a written order of how much intake she needs to get.  She has loved to eat in the past (hence the rolly arms :)) so hopefully once she starts to feel better she'll decide to eat better.  We've also had to chase her oxygen saturations a bit.  Since she came out of ICU she's been consistently sat'ing in the high 70's and low 80's, but this afternoon was dipping into the 60's and low 70's.  We've turned her O2 up 3L (liters per minute) and are trying to find her new normal. Hopefully we can figure it out tonight and tomorrow.  She did have an echo and chest xray this morning that both came back good.

Once we figure out her O2, weight gain will be her ticket home! Hopefully in the next few days. :)