Wednesday, July 27, 2005

A Graduation of Sorts



Yesterday was a good day for Emma. She is back off of the ventilator and they moved her over to another section of the NICU. For the first 10 days she was in a section of the NICU for the most critical patients. Yesterday another 30 weeker was born, so they needed a new space. Since Emma was doing the best out of her row, she moved. It isn’t quite as private in her old home, but there is more room for us to move around. She is breathing well on her own again and will hopefully be off the ventilator for good. If she starts to have labored breathing again though, they will have to put her back on. They also started her on milk one more time. Even though she had made it up to .7 cc per hour before taking her off the milk, they started her back at .1 cc per hour. We are hoping that the milk will help her start to gain some weight. In other news, Alissa was cleared by her doctor to drive. They originally told her 2 weeks, but she seems to be progressing well enough. She is happy about that because she can go to the hospital whenever she feels like it now rather than waiting for me or someone else to take her.

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