New Room

Well, last night wasn't so good. Kylee tossed and turned most of the night. The last time she had pain medication had been early yesterday afternoon. They've been trying not to give her as much. After several hours of her waking up crying in the night, I told the nurse I thought she better give her some. They gave it to her through her IV. She did a little better after that.

They had to come and take blood again. They were going to try to flush her IV so that they could take the blood from it, rather than poking her, but when the nurse checked with the doctor, he said that they were going to try to take out her IV today so they didn't want to order the flush. They lowered the amount of liquids they are giving her through the IV so that they can work her off of it.

They said that we could go off the liquid diet and she could eat anything. PMCH has an awesome menu for the kids here. They can order food just like at a hotel and the menu has pretty much anything a kid would want. Kylee will say she is hungry, but when we get food for her, she doesn't really eat much. I imagine her tummy still hurts and she doesn't really feel like eating. Plus, the fluids through the IV keep her full. They said she should start to eat better now that the she's not getting as much from the IV. We ordered her "big long soup" (Top Ramen), cottage cheese and peaches for lunch. She drank some of the juice in the soup, but didn't touch anything else. Later, around dinner time, we got her a burrito, broccoli, a vanilla milkshake, and a cupcake. She ate about 1/3 of the burrito and licked the frosting on the cupcake. She also drank about a third of her chocolate milk. Hopefully tomorrow she'll do a bit better.

When the doctor made his rounds this evening, he said they would wait until tomorrow to take the IV out. Then they would see how she does eating and pooping before we can go home. Sounds like at least one more day.

They moved us into a different room at the other end of the hospital. Room 3082 is in the newer wing of the CSU (Children's Surgical Unit). The new room is a much bigger and nicer room. To bad we weren't in it the whole week.

We brought Kylee and all her new presents to the new room in a wagon. She thought she was pretty cool.

Later when the other girls got back, they played hide and seek in the cabinets until one of them accidently tripped on Kylee's IV cords which hurt her arm.

I finally had to ask how the schedules and rotations worked for the nurses. We've been here for almost 7 days, and there was only one shift where we had the same nurse. It seemed so wierd to me. We saw some of the nurses we had before in other areas. They said that they usually work 3 twelve hours shifts per week. If they work two days in a row, they are usually assigned to the same area and patients, but if they have a day off, they could be assigned anywhere.