A bit better

Today was a little better than yesterday. Livie is still pretty sick, but she acts like she is starting to feel a tiny bit better. She has her appetite back....and is pushing 22 pounds now!! She's gained almost 5 lbs!! She needed it, now she has the chubbiest little cheeks!!

She had another CT scan today, the spinal fluid inside her ventricles isn't any more than on Friday...so thats really good, as of right now there is pressure in her brain, but not TOO much, we can hold off a day on putting the lumbar drain back in.
Oh, and Alyvia's eye exam went well, her optic nerves are not damaged, but her reaction time was slow (which is common after brain trauma) so hopefully within a year she will get her sight
back.
We did have a scare today, though. Livie stopped breathing (still no one knows why she does this) and she wouldn't/couldn't take a breath, even with oxygen. So the nurse had to call a code blue and just when they got ready to bag her, she started breathing. I was so scared, its so unreal seeing something like that happen in real life, let alone to your own child. No wonder my hair is coming in grey in places. Seriously, it is. Good thing for hair dye.

Well, I decided that we were going to wait until Alyvia absolutely had no more veins left (even with using an ultrasound to find them) until she has to have a PIC line put in. But then her IV went bad...however they miraculously found a vein, they even got it on the first poke!! (: