Moving Day

A lot happening today…

Adela did well with the increased formula rates overnight, so the doctors and we are in agreement that she’s ready to move out of the PICU and into a regular room.  We’re quite excited since this is a big step toward going home.  We know we’ll still be here for a week or so, but at least we’ll have moved away from the PICU (and all the emotional implications of being in an ICU room).  Even though we’re happy to be moving, part of us is nervous as well.  It’s been great having such attentive nurses literally ten steps away at all times and to have that high nurse-to-patient ratio.  However, hopefully we won’t need the nurses nearly as much up on the floor, so it should balance out.

In addtion to our moving today, Adela is going off her remaining antibiotics and the TPN (total parenteral nutrition).  That, combined with changing her remaining medicines to be given through her feeding tube, means that we will no longer need the main IV line in her neck.  The timing is good because as she’s been waking up more, she’s been scratching at the tape that covers the line and is making it leak just a little bit.  They’ll need to put in a regular IV line (probably in her foot) just in case they need to administer any medicines, but hopefully that shouldn’t be a problem.

Her labwork shows that her liver is still slowly improving and the doctors felt that she’s making such good improvement with her lungs that they didn’t order an x-ray for this morning.

So, all around, good news.  Hopefully our next blog post will be from the (relative) comfort of a little bit larger room upstairs.  Then Ali and I can actually sleep in the room with her rather than in the PICU waiting room!