11.29.17 Wound VAC4

We just moved from the general surgery floor up to the more specialized surgical area. Getting Aimee settled. She isn’t tolerating any fluids yet and is needing extra respiratory support. At this point, we’re just trying to keep her comfortable and figure out how to position her with this big tube coming out of her back. 

We did talk with the general surgical dietician and found out that Aimee is somewhat anemic, but that they needed more blood to get the zinc/vitamin c levels. 

Here is the exciting news: there is an exception for babies who are nursing being allowed to stay with the mom overnight in the hospital! Somehow this detail has never been given to us in past times when it would have been helpful. Such a relief that Walter and I won’t be restricted by visiting hours!!! That being said, we decided to keep the hotel room and switch off spending the nights at the hospital. It’s an extra expense and hard to consider voluntarily leaving, but Ed and I are both so exhausted, running on fumes it feels like. We can come and go as needed, but also get some real sleep hopefully every other night.