When we (GG Ibeling, Esther, Deb and I) arrived at the hospital this morning, Madelyn was relaxing with her bed at an incline watching cartoons. She looked surprised to see me, like, "Mom, I swear, I bumped the button trying to call my nurse and the television turned on and then I couldn't get it back off." She was thrilled to see us and very smiley this morning.
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| Watching cartoons from her bed. |
They did rounds about 9 am and let us know that they are going to remove her central line and see if she can get by without it. They will give her two weeks or so to see how she is doing without it and then if she is not doing well, they will put a new one in. At this point, it being in and not working is just risking more infection.
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| Playing with Great Grandma Feikes |
Dan's Feikes grandparents arrived this afternoon as well as Grammy Ann and they entertained Maddie because she was getting frustrated with not being able to eat. She had to wait 6 hours after her last food before they could do the surgery.
They sedated her with gas instead of general anesthesia and then pulled the line out. The actual procedure took very little time. I took her down in a wheelchair at 2:55 pm and got back up to her room at 3:00. At 3:12 pm Dr. Potter arrived to let me know that she is out and doing well. At 3:16 pm, Dr. Rahhal came up to see if Madelyn was back yet. We are going to increase her food to 5 oz of formula 4x a day with 1-2 oz of baby food with each bottle. She will stay at 40 ccs of formula an hour at night for 10 hours.
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| Getting ready for surgery. |
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| Heading down to surgery with Mommy. |
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