Friday update! (Oops – skipped Thursday!)

Today is Leah’s 6-month birthday!

Not a lot to update but I feel like we should write something before certain beloved family members who shall not be named start texting and emailing to ask where their blog update is. 🙂 <3

Leah is still on the vent, as you know. We had a really rough day/night on Wednesday, and the nurses/docs woke me up three times during the night, twice to clear the room for chest x-rays and once to let me know that they were re-intubating. I’m told I was so knocked out that I fell asleep as soon as I confirmed that I understood what they were doing and then slept through the entire intubation, which did not happen in the OR as I had assumed when they told me the anesthesiologist was doing it – he (or she?) came up here. It was a long night. Thankfully she has been a lot more comfortable these past few days, and today has even been awake a bit, albeit stoned and groggy and moderately pissed off whenever somebody lifts her up for a second. For a little while she was even sucking on the breathing tube and trying to taste the plastic bridge holding it in place. That’s our Bug! We are hoping they will be able to extubate early next week, but after seeing what Leah went through last time we want to make sure it happens when she is ready!!!

We had another little bit of excitement last night and this morning when we had to move rooms briefly so that the facilities people could repair a massive crack in our window. We noticed and reported it a few weeks ago, but it’s gradually been growing and has gained maybe 6 inches just in the past week or week and a half. Don’t ask me how a crack showed up in an upper-story window. It’s not like there are kids in the street playing baseball. I guess maybe with all the construction going on, the vibrations could be causing cracks. Apparently there have been others recently as well. So we switched to the room next door and had to take EVERYTHING down as if we were leaving. That was a weird experience. Everything was totally backwards in the other room. I was so turned around and am so relieved to be back in the room we’re used to. I know it’s a little thing but sometimes the little things matter!!!

Pictures:

Sleeping Beauty