Hospital Day 3

My daughter is a trouble maker! She can't seem to allow any IV to last longer than 36 hours. Her 2nd IV of this hospital stay started leaking. So she earned herself a PICC line. The NICU nurses put them in, in the procedure room, so I didn't get to watch. I took the free time to shower and eat breakfast in the cafeteria with my mom and dad. Also while the NICU nurse was putting in her PICC, she took the blood she needed for the immunology studies. Originally the lab said they needed 12ml of blood. HOLY COW! was all I could say, because that is a lot of blood for a baby. Fortunately they only needed 5ml, you just have to talk to the right person.

My parents hung out with me until around 11am and then Andy came up around 1pm and brought us lunch from Red Robin. Yum!


Ava's covered PICC line. She is a kicker so in order to protect the PICC it was super taped and gauzed.

Ava's night nurse didn't like the first "tape to protect" covering on the PICC line because it was so difficult to see the insertion site, so she uncovered it and rewrapped it so it could easily be viewed.



We saw the pulmonologist/immunologist. He said that the first part of the immunology labs were all normal which is great news! We don't have the results of the CT or echocardiogram yet. The pediatrician said her WBCs were 27,000, on thursday which is higher than normal. These are all the results we have at this time.

We tried turning off Ava's oxygen off this evening since she had been off it all day, but she didn't tolerate it, she dropped her sats down into the high 80s again. The rash on her bum is starting to improve. It's amazing how using the right creams will take care of the problem so quickly. That's all for now.