July 23..."Tomorrow's another day, and I'm thirsty anyway, so bring on the rain!"

Posted Jul 23, 2009 7:41pm

Well, it was bound to happen, right? We just HAD to have a rough day, it couldn’t have all gone so perfect.

I came into Sarai’s room this morning to find her nurse all flustered (as she’s been for the past 3 days) with Sarai’s breathing. Last night when they were doing a test, they had to take the nasal cannulas off. So I thought her oxygen was dipping low because of that. But even after turning her oxygen up… and up again…. and up again… it still wasn’t stable the way we’re used to. They just brought her food up to 35 cc’s and started giving her vitamins yesterday. When she threw up a little, and I asked if it could be either of those things causing a problem, the doctor said, “Probably not.” Ok. Because of the instability with her oxygen, they decided to move her back to a room where there are less babies (instead of one nurse for 3 babies, there’s one nurse for 2 babies). Walking down the hallway behind Sarai, being pushed back to a room that we thought she had progressed past, felt like a walk of shame. But, whatever they have to do to give her the best care, we’ll do it.

They gave her a chest x-ray, that was normal. Then they did some blood work to look for signs of infection, and so far that’s not showing anything. So, they’re telling me, all signs are pointing to reflux. If that’s still the case tomorrow, they’ll probably start treating her with antacids. If they find that it’s apnea related, they’ll start treating her with caffeine.

On another note, Sarai gained 100 grams yesterday! She’s now a whopping 4 lbs! What a porker!