Posted Aug 11, 2009 9:48pm
Hi everyone.
We talked quite a bit today with one of the physicians assistants about Sarai coming home. I think I mentioned a while back that she’s on caffeine. We were told today that we can keep her on the caffeine and have the option of bringing her home on a monitor, or have them stop the caffeine and keep her in the hospital for another 7 days to see how she does. We decided to keep the caffeine and get the monitor. The doctors have told us they don’t actually think the monitors are really good for anything, they usually just set off false alarms. I think that the bottom line is, they wouldn’t be sending her home if she wasn’t ready. She’s had no apneas in ages and has never had a drop in her heart rate (a “brady”). But we’ll take the monitor just to be sure.
As you know, Sarai had her carseat test today. Unfortunately, she didn’t pass it the first time around. She began to dip a bit in her oxygen, and the nurse put some oxygen below her face to boost her back up. She’s having another one right now. She’s doing better, but had a couple small dips. The nurse told me that since that’s normal for her and especially since she’s coming home on a monitor, she’ll probably pass the test.
We are still waiting to hear from the neurologist for official word on the MRI. Unofficially, we’ve heard that it confirms the PVL and doesn’t say much more.
There was a Miss Preemie NICU Pageant hosted by Donald Trump today. Simon Cowell and Sharon Osborne were among the celebrity judges. Sarai was voted most beautiful, winning the “onesie” competition and getting “best hair”! You go girl!
We were busy running some last minute errands today and I think we’re about ready to get our little beauty queen home!
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