What a day... Today I had 3 'wobbles', no I wasn't standing up; it's what the lovely nurses called them... My heart rate went down from about 145 beats/min to 59, which scared Mummy very much, she was reading me a story at the time (Mr Tickle) and I wanted to see what she'd do if I went a bit 'wobbly'. I've learnt that it's not nice to see how someone reacts to a bad situation... so the next time I did it, which was just before she called at midnight... I'd settled down by then, so Mummy could rest too.
You see, I'm not very happy at the moment because I've got fluid in my lungs. The nurses can't take it out as it's not like there's an 'amount' of fluid in them, they're just wet in all of the chambers and holes... Laying me on my front helps as this moves the fluid around and encourages it to be absorbed back into my body. The nurses are giving me diuretic drugs to help me wee wee so that my body gets a bit dehydrated and so the fluid in my lungs goes into my body and then I'll wee wee that out. They're giving me antibiotics as they think it MIGHT be an infection, but there's more chance that it isn't, but they have to be safer than sorry (which makes me happy as one day I'd really like to be able to cuddle Mummy and Daddy). They've also taken some blood out to have a look at it's cultures to confirm an infection or not, those results will be back on Saturday; I'll let you know what's what over the weekend...
But looking on the brighter side - which we must all do - I've put on weight and am now up to 810g's (remember that I was born at 760g's). Aren't I clever - I think I take after Mummy (Daddy might disagree!). I've also had a blood transfusion today - they give me 15ml's over 4 hours, this is to take away any bad blood and to give me some nice clean blood. It makes me a bit unsettled for a while, but then I perk up again and wriggle around like normal - but then they give me a drug called morphine, this helps me rest and takes away some of the discomfort of the tube down my throat which moves around and hurts - I can't wait for this to go, it's made me cry when it hurts... but no one can hear me cry yet, it's a silent cry...
What a day... Today I had 3 'wobbles', no I wasn't standing up; it's what the lovely nurses called them... My heart rate went down from about 145 beats/min to 59, which scared Mummy very much, she was reading me a story at the time (Mr Tickle) and I wanted to see what she'd do if I went a bit 'wobbly'. I've learnt that it's not nice to see how someone reacts to a bad situation... so the next time I did it, which was just before she called at midnight... I'd settled down by then, so Mummy could rest too.
You see, I'm not very happy at the moment because I've got fluid in my lungs. The nurses can't take it out as it's not like there's an 'amount' of fluid in them, they're just wet in all of the chambers and holes... Laying me on my front helps as this moves the fluid around and encourages it to be absorbed back into my body. The nurses are giving me diuretic drugs to help me wee wee so that my body gets a bit dehydrated and so the fluid in my lungs goes into my body and then I'll wee wee that out. They're giving me antibiotics as they think it MIGHT be an infection, but there's more chance that it isn't, but they have to be safer than sorry (which makes me happy as one day I'd really like to be able to cuddle Mummy and Daddy). They've also taken some blood out to have a look at it's cultures to confirm an infection or not, those results will be back on Saturday; I'll let you know what's what over the weekend...
But looking on the brighter side - which we must all do - I've put on weight and am now up to 810g's (remember that I was born at 760g's). Aren't I clever - I think I take after Mummy (Daddy might disagree!). I've also had a blood transfusion today - they give me 15ml's over 4 hours, this is to take away any bad blood and to give me some nice clean blood. It makes me a bit unsettled for a while, but then I perk up again and wriggle around like normal - but then they give me a drug called morphine, this helps me rest and takes away some of the discomfort of the tube down my throat which moves around and hurts - I can't wait for this to go, it's made me cry when it hurts... but no one can hear me cry yet, it's a silent cry...
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