12.28.10

Sorry for the lack of post yesterday, but we got home pretty late and I forgot to get online and post anything.
We still really don't know anything about her infection. None of the cultures are growing anything and all the tests they have done have come back negative. They are leaning more towards her having a virus rather than a bacterial infection because that's the direction her blood test are steering them in. Unfortunately, you can't treat a virus with antibiotics, you just have to be patient and wait for her little body to fight it off. They have resumed the feedings, but only at 5 cc's, so as to not overwork her system. We don't have to do the gown and glove thing anymore and no more iv in the scalp, thank goodness! She seems to have more energy today but most of that energy went into being fussy. I don't know if it's because she is hungry or if it's because she doesn't feel good though. I wish I could hold her tight and comfort her, but yesterday both her iv's were in her scalp, so I almost didn't want to hold her, I didn't want to hurt her. I just want to cuddle with her, but it stresses her out to be moved around a lot, and I don't want to add any stress to her system. Poor baby! She is really swollen because of all the fluids they have pumped into her system (like, yet another blood transfusion yesterday, BT's = 3 so far). Morgan says she looks like the stay puff marshmallow man. I looked at her today and wondered where her double chin came from. I never thought I would see the day where I would complain about how chubby my girls face was! :) They don't want to give her anything yet to get rid of all the excess fluid just yet, because she tends to drop her sodium levels when they give her the diruetic, so they want to see if she will pee it out. I hope she gets over this before I have to go to work next week, otherwise I am going to get absolutely NOTHING done, my mind will constantly be on her (which it will probably be anyway).