Our little girl is getting bigger and bigger! She is now just over 4 pounds. We are just thrilled that she is growing so well and loving her food. She has had a good week.
Just after I updated the blog on Sunday night we got a phone call from the hospital. This was alarming at 10pm at night.....the nurse had seen some drainage coming out of Danielle's right ear. She got the doctor to come in and take a look and, she has a middle ear infection, and, her ear drum had ruptured. This just broke our hearts, especially since we had been there all afternoon and didn't notice anything. And normally we notice EVERYTHING! They did labs to check for signs of other infections and everything came back fine. So they started her on 2 broad spectrum medications thru an IV in her arm. They will do this course for 7-10 days, they have not completely decided how long yet. One doctor told me he had a hard time believing the ear drum ruptured because the ear canal is so small that it is very hard to tell and just because she had drainage does not necessarily mean a rupture....but that is really neither here nor there now, it won't change the protocol for her at this time. If it did indeed rupture, it will heal over, probably already has, just like a scratch on our skin.
She has not acted fussy or like she is in pain. I am thinking that she is like Dylan, very resilient! Our poor kids going thru this. If we could make it so neither of them has to endure any pain the rest of their lives we sure would, as I know any parent would. They are tough little cookies that is for sure. So Danielle is doing good. They probably won't take her off Vapotherm until after her medication course is completed.
Lord, please protect our children. Please keep them safe, happy, healthy and free from harm, every day of their life.~
Just after I updated the blog on Sunday night we got a phone call from the hospital. This was alarming at 10pm at night.....the nurse had seen some drainage coming out of Danielle's right ear. She got the doctor to come in and take a look and, she has a middle ear infection, and, her ear drum had ruptured. This just broke our hearts, especially since we had been there all afternoon and didn't notice anything. And normally we notice EVERYTHING! They did labs to check for signs of other infections and everything came back fine. So they started her on 2 broad spectrum medications thru an IV in her arm. They will do this course for 7-10 days, they have not completely decided how long yet. One doctor told me he had a hard time believing the ear drum ruptured because the ear canal is so small that it is very hard to tell and just because she had drainage does not necessarily mean a rupture....but that is really neither here nor there now, it won't change the protocol for her at this time. If it did indeed rupture, it will heal over, probably already has, just like a scratch on our skin.
She has not acted fussy or like she is in pain. I am thinking that she is like Dylan, very resilient! Our poor kids going thru this. If we could make it so neither of them has to endure any pain the rest of their lives we sure would, as I know any parent would. They are tough little cookies that is for sure. So Danielle is doing good. They probably won't take her off Vapotherm until after her medication course is completed.
Lord, please protect our children. Please keep them safe, happy, healthy and free from harm, every day of their life.~
No comments:
Post a Comment