Shayna: Minor excitement this morning as her blood O2 levels went down due to her breathing tube getting slightly out of place and some fluid in her lungs. Breathing tube was fixed and they've started her on diuretics both to get the fluid out of her lungs and deflate the rest of her in preparation for a full closing 48-72hrs from now. Her white blood cell (WBC) count is great (no infections), her liver is functioning well (total bilirubin has come down from 12 before to 5.9 this morning), and her blood pressure is staying nice an "high" with only occasional light assistance (they want it "high" because the veins in Nahum's liver are used to it being at adult strength not pediatric so it's some where between). Melinda is with her right now.
MandM: Made a great soup for us last night. So nice to have healthy, tasty food again.
Nahum: Sat in a chair for the first time today. Hilary said he clung to the chair for dear life but needs to be doing it. The sooner he's up and moving, the quicker he gets better and the better he stays. It's also the first step for him seeing Shayna again. He's also been cleared for food again so Hilary brought him some other broth from the soup plus he gets to partake in more great hospital food besides jello. Hopefully MandM can keep cooking so he doesn't have to eat much of the hospital slop. He's having a rough time with the pain medication side effects, which is typical of Nahum's body but gives him excrusiating headaches, so he's not up for visitors today. Michael was going to go but will now go tomorrow. Hilary is still keeping track of him from the start of visiting hours to whenever she's kicked out after visiting hours are over.
Me: I'm doing laundry and filling out the November photo album on facebook.
This pic is from Thanksgiving day with a link to the rest of the album below.
Glad you're getting some real food! It sounds like you have a great support network there.
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