Nov 19, 2007

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!! (:

4 comments:

Erin said...

Hang in there, you are being watched over. Alyvia is giving those guardian angels a run for their money. I am thrilled to hear that her eyesight will get better. We love you all.
-Erin

Liz said...

Megan, your father sort of forgot to tell me about Alyvia coding yesterday. I'm like how could you forget something like that. I'm glad grandma was with you. I'm trying to get everything packed and ready to come down. We have to bring Gizmo, I wonder if the Hospital wouls let him in to see Alyvia? yeah, probably not!! I wanted to share something i ran across in the scriptures last night.
Have the day of miracles ceased?
Or have angelsceased to appear unto the children of men? Or has he withheld the power of the Holy Ghost from them?...Behold I say unto you, Nay; for it is by faith that miracles are wrought.

Moroni 7:35-37

Quintin & Teresa said...

You're an amazing mommy.

Julie said...

Thank you for your updates, You all have been on our minds so much, and in our prayers. You are a very strong family. Love, from Boise.