Hospital Day 4

Well, another day here in the hospital. The blood and urine tests they ran yesterday all are normal. They are doing both blood and urine cultures and the preliminary results for those are also normal, so that is a good sign. Maya had an ok night. She had a fever of 102 again last night at about 11 pm, after some tylenol it went down and she slept fairly well and was only suctioned twice during the night. This morning the doctor on from her pediatricians office came in and checked her out. He said she sounds better than yesterday, but still has some work to do. He said to plan on "days" still. When I asked him what he meant by days he said probably the end of the week, so my new goal is to be out of here by Friday. We can always hope for a miracle.

Ricky and I are both doing alright. We have been taking turns going home to sleep at night, the "bed" here is a pull out chair that is horribly uncomfortable and we are in a room with another baby, so there is always one of them awake and fussy or being suctioned. It is hard to get sleep, but amazingly it seems like I can usually get a few hours of sleep. Ricky went home last night. He just got back so I am going to feed Maya when she wakes up and then head home for a few hours to get some sleep. It is also hard because both Ricky and I feel like we are coming down with colds. We are downing airborne and trying to take care of ourselves, but it is tough when you are around these viruses all day. Hopefully we can hold off the sickness and stay healthy enough to take care of our baby! Other than that we are trying to keep ourselves entertained and sane. We have had family up at various times each day which is nice. Ricky is going to be working from here today and probably some each day this week, so I won't have to be here all day every day. I am really grateful that Maya didn't get sick a week earlier while Ricky was in the middle of Sundance. It is good to have him here!