Day Eleven at UM

Wow, it is Eila's 11th day in the hospital ... but at least I'm also writing that it was an easy, slow Sunday.  Eila's feeling fine overall, her biggest complaint was that she was incredibly itchy (like bringing her to tears because it was so hard to resist itching itchy).  She got some benadryl and her incision stopped itching within 30 minutes.

Today also slowed down a bit because Daddy went home.  Although she isn't here, this has been a very long trip for Annikka and it was time for someone help bring back some level of normalcy in her life.  While we were sad to see him go, I'm sure there will be hugs and tears of joy at home.

From July/Aug2015

And today Eila's penrose drain also appears to have finally slowed down a little - YAY!  For the last ~24 hours, it drained 175 mL (approx. 7.3 mL/hour).  In the ~24 before that, it drained 247 mL (approx. 10.3 mL/hour).  We're really hoping that the doctors will see this as good news tomorrow morning.  And although I know it's not enough so that Eila will be leaving Michigan with fewer tubes attached, it's progress in the right direction and I hope her numbers stay down tomorrow.  Still not entirely sure when she'll be discharged but we're optimistic it will be the beginning of this week.

And now it's the two of us ...

From July/Aug2015