Tuesday progress report

This is the info this this morning’s rounds.

Urology – there is an infection. They are hoping that the antibiotic they have already been using for her lungs is also sensitive and will take care of this as well. They will let me know. They will also possibly take out the urethra catheter today to try to eliminate more infection. The one in her belly button (Monti) will stay for another couple weeks.

Surgery – stay the course with the current pain regiment. She has been resting comfortably and when she struggles I can push the button for a bolus and that has helped and we both slept quite a bit last night. Her NG hasn’t been having much output so they may take that out today in hopes that without the NG her intestines will have more movement. Her belly is still pretty bloated so we can vent her gtube to relieve some pressure since we wouldn’t have the NG to do that.

She down to 6 liters of oxygen from 12 this morning. Big improvement there.

The nurses from the ninth floor (where we started) have been taking their break times to come down and visit Laila. Even without her normal personality this girl spreads joy and is infectious wherever she goes. People are just drawn to her.

I know that is all a lot of good news and God keeps repeating the old “Count Your Blessings” song in my head. And we are SO blessed….. But I’m fighting sorrow today. I just want my Laila back. I just want to go home. I just want to sit at the dinner table with my family and do devotions and be amazed by the facts that RJ knows and tell Jackson to sit down in his chair and have Emma tell me face to face how her play practice is going. I want our crazy version of normal. Pray for me today because I’m really struggling.

I appreciate all of you. I know there are more of you than I know about or can count that are lifting our family up. We are blessed.