Day 22

Sorry for the late post! Its prob day 23 for some of you already... Anyway, today has been long and up and down. Here is the first text from Telisha at 10:10a. "Dr Karmo greeted me with "we have some positives to work with today..." Her blood culture is negative at 48 hours (for yeast), her platelets are up and should be over 100 tomorrow. Her low sats and kidney function is assumed to be the result of PDA (Patent Ductus Arteriosus) which is a common problem with premies where a duct in the heart fails to close, causing blood leakage into the lungs. With the infection gone & blood count up, they were going to treat the PDA, which should solve lots of Bella's problems. Next, Telisha got to hold the little one for the 1st time! On her chest, skin to skin. How awesome! First time anyone has held Bella! I'm sure you can guess that Telisha was ecstatic. This was about noon and the rest of the day was happy news until this evening. By 9ish, our late hospital trip, after Dylan is asleep, Bellas sats were in the 60s on 100% oxygen. Turns out she does not have PDA after all and it seems to be fluid around the lungs causing her decreased breathing function. Her urine output has been pretty bad, and was assumed to be a result of the PDA, which we now know it is not. They're just changed some settings on her ventilator, but may switch her back to the oscilating vent soon, if her sats doesnt pick up soon. Just a waiting game now...hopefull she will pee soon and get rid of some of this fluid so she can breathe. What an up and down day!