Well Alistair had another great day! Alistair had his paralytic stopped so we got to see him move for the first time ever! It was lovely. He was sticking out his tongue, moving his lips, and wiggeling his toes and fingers. He's still very sedated but he does respond even when i give him a smooch on his head. Like I said its lovely. They ar also weaning him off some of his meds such as epi to see how his system tolerates it. Right now his blood pressure seems satisfied with the changes along with his O2 sats. So like I am moving forward cautiously optimistic!! : ) I have posted two x-rays one is taken just after he was born and you can see that his heart is squished to the right and his left lung his really small. Its hard to see too but his stomach and intestines are up in the left chest. Then the other x-ray was taken today and you can really see how much things have moved about. Just below the left lung it appears grey and that is fluid that took up the spot when they moved the stomach and intestines. This is expected. So yep all this makes this mama happy. Another thing that made this women happy is I jumped on the scale at the hospital for the first time since delivering and i lost TWENTY-ONE POUNDS!!! Yes same scale that weighed me before and after. I think this girl was retaining some water! LOL My legs were definitely tree trunks for the first few days. Anyhow that was a nice little treat for this girl too. Well my mom is coming tomorrow which is exciting for all of us!
Chat again soon!
Cheers Julie
Lorna, Bettina and I are at work and checking out the pics. HUGS!
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Yay!! That sounds great. Glad things are slowly improving. That cxr looks cool...quite the difference. And great job on losing the 20 odd pounds!!
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Fantastic news that Alistair is making such good progress, and it must be so exciting to see him moving about. Guess you feel moving is a bit easier too, if you have lost over 20 pounds, well done you! Wait until Alistair has you running aroumd after him, then you'll lose even more!
ReplyDeleteIt is great that you keep updating for us to see, I'm sure you have so much going on at the moment that you have to make time to do it, so thank you for that.
Great news that your mum is coming down, she will be so excited to see Alistair I'm sure. What is she going to be called, a Nanna, a Grandmom or what?
Hope things keep improving for you, and if you have time keep posting to let us know, especially love the pics!
Love from us all
Lisa, Harold and Emma. xxxx
Yay Alistair!!! Great idea to snap a pic of the pics! Alistair will have a great story to read when he's old enough to do so. Although at some point he might say " Ah Mom, did you have to post that one!!"
ReplyDeleteYay you too on the decrease! That's always a bonus.
Christy
As a former x-ray tech I found the chest x-rays very interesting Julie. Keep up thegood work on theweight loss too. Lots of love auntie rosi and hi to your mom
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