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so, for those of you that have been paying attention.
Eowyn has had two very good days, we're going to go see her this afternoon. They have managed to wean her off her blood pressure medication, along with turn her Vent down some and swap out her belly button IV line to a better, more stable PIC line in her arm. She still has a small flappy hole in her heart which is very normal, if it does not correct itself in a couple of weeks or appears to start causing problems they will have to go in to fix it. The doctor says that in most cases they do need to fix it. Apparently this is a fairly normal surgery in Extremely early births but wont cause her heart issues later in life.
She does however have a bleed in her head. Its a grade 3 out of 4 potential grades. So... not good. It will take time to see how bad it is however and what it will do to her. It is on the left side only. But her white count and platelets have stabilized so its a good sign that its stopped. Also there has been no visible or measurable head swelling. Also good.
She's still on IV nutrition and will be for a while. Eventually they will start trying small amounts of breast milk. which is good as It seems I am meant to keep them well stocked.
They've not weighed her again yet or measured her. She probably wont change too much until they start feeding her though.
If they can swap her over to another kind of vent in the next couple of weeks we'll finally get to hold her. I'm very excited about that. Eric has started reading to her. It's the most adorable thing in the world.
Eowyn has had two very good days, we're going to go see her this afternoon. They have managed to wean her off her blood pressure medication, along with turn her Vent down some and swap out her belly button IV line to a better, more stable PIC line in her arm. She still has a small flappy hole in her heart which is very normal, if it does not correct itself in a couple of weeks or appears to start causing problems they will have to go in to fix it. The doctor says that in most cases they do need to fix it. Apparently this is a fairly normal surgery in Extremely early births but wont cause her heart issues later in life.
She does however have a bleed in her head. Its a grade 3 out of 4 potential grades. So... not good. It will take time to see how bad it is however and what it will do to her. It is on the left side only. But her white count and platelets have stabilized so its a good sign that its stopped. Also there has been no visible or measurable head swelling. Also good.
She's still on IV nutrition and will be for a while. Eventually they will start trying small amounts of breast milk. which is good as It seems I am meant to keep them well stocked.
They've not weighed her again yet or measured her. She probably wont change too much until they start feeding her though.
If they can swap her over to another kind of vent in the next couple of weeks we'll finally get to hold her. I'm very excited about that. Eric has started reading to her. It's the most adorable thing in the world.