Moving Up in the World…

We have just moved up to Adela’s new room. While the PICU doctors cleared us to move this morning, we had to wait for a bed to become available upstairs. We’re now on the 5th floor in the CICCU (pronounced as “kick you”)…the Children’s Intermediate Cardiac Care Unit. The room is much larger than the one in the PICU, so all the family can be in here at once. Plus, there’s enough room to sleep in here with her.

Adela is now at her target rate for the formula flow (30 ml/hour), so her IV nutrition has been stopped. Also, we’re on the last day of her remaining antibiotics. The doctors were planning to remove her main IV line in her neck, but have decided to leave it at least through the night and possibly through the weekend. They just want some IV access for the next few days, so if they can leave the main line, they won’t have to put in another. Adela is notoriously hard to get an IV line into or to get blood from, so the less they have to stick her, the better.

Unfortunately, she’s now back to running a fever of 101.5, so the nurses took a culture to see if she has another infection. We won’t know the results of that until tomorrow. She did just get some Tylenol, so that should bring down the fever some.

We’re off the “contact precautions” again, so we no longer need the fashionable yellow gowns or blue gloves, but we are on “droplet precautions” because of her RSV, so we still have to wear the masks. We’ll probably have to wear them until we leave the hospital.

Oh, and “Go UNC!”. (We’re watching UNC play against Gonzaga right now.)