Mallie Bean

Mallie Bean

Monday, September 6, 2010

Bright & Early excitement

So Mallie decided that she apparently had enough this morning and sometime pulled out the central line IV.  When the nurse came in to draw her labs this morning in the dark - trying not to disturb her - she could not get a blood draw from either line.  She was going to call the head doctors to see what they wanted to do.  I went to the bathroom - mind you this is 5:00AM!!!   When I came out I was trying to pat her back and make her stop crying and she was soaked & smelled funny.  I notices her shirt was kind of stained in the half dark so I flipped on the light.  Her little shirt was soaked partially with her IV fluids and blood and probably whatever else they ran thru the lines to see why they were not drawing.  Sometime in the night she pulled it out- so we were rushing around trying to figure out what to do with her - get her cleaned up and bed changed.  They had unhooked the suction on her nose tube yesterday and she was doing fine with it - so with all the activity this morning - surgery decided to go ahead and pull the tube out and take the oxygen off since she did not need it anymore.  We started feeds a little earlier then we anticipated too this morning.  So she is basically tube free and I am pretty sure she is so proud of herself!  When surgery came up to check her out - she was smiling and being flirty with him:)  She is feeling so much better to be free - well sort of.  We still have regular monitors on her.  Also very lucky she had all her antibiotics before she pulled it out.  She may still need an IV - we are not sure yet.  Also her pain don't seem to be bad either so again lucky there.  With starting feeds we should be able to give her oral tylenol or something like that if needed.  They brought in some liquid pre mixed formula and she has never liked it.  So her first feed did not go super good - maybe took a half an ounce.  They are supposed to bring up the powdered stuff like she is used to.  Right now I am super tired from being up since 5 and Mallie resting comfortably in her crib.  Will update later with how the day goes :) 

2 comments:

  1. Go Mallie! She's letting them know she's feeling better and wants out of there! And, it's a good sign she has all that energy. Get some rest Steph. LYLAS!

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  2. Mallie is definitely got some Reimer in her because when the Reimers have had enough of something they are DONE !!!!!!!!!!!! Yay - way to go Mallie - you are one TOUGH LITTLE LADY. Love Gramma and Grandpa Reimer

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