Late again, same reason as last two days !!! As predicted things are slowly returning to where we were a week ago, Dilan is still on the ventilator but is on the lowest setting and is doing a lot of the breathing herself. When we saw her last night she was very comfortably tucked up in her incubator, and thats all I can say for this report really, panic over for now, Jen and Gareth got an early night, came home with us, and are planning a lie in this morning, well earned I think.
If I still have no internet at home tomorrow I will not be able to post again till Monday AM so please bear with me all, and for the first post ever I have to say, onward to the next 48hrs !!!!
Still no internet access at home so late again. Well, what an up and down day Dilan has given us today, seems she had a reasonable night, a few drops in her vitals but after yesterday they were better, during the day things again were up and down, breathing and heart particularly up and down, but on the whole not too bad. when we visited in the evening it had been decided that if Dilan had one more bad drop in vital signs that she would be put on a ventilator for a few days to rest her, just after we left I received a text from Jen to say this was to happen, so as far as I am aware this has taken place. The reason I put it like that is because just after that text there was a developement which I would rather not go into just now, but from the point of view of this Blog, I will say that the "Problem" discovered should bring our Little baby straight back to a good strong position we felt she was in a few days ago. I will tell more when I know more, Till then heres to hoping the next 24hrs get better..........
Sorry to be late for Wednesday's update, this is for two reasons, firstly we had a large storm last night and my broadband connection has'nt worked since, secondly, unfortunately, Dilan had a bad turn on Wednesday evening and I wanted to await the outcome before posting.
On the whole she had a good day but whilst we were visiting last night she had a relapse in her condition resulting in, at one point, all her vital signs stopping including her breathing! as you can imagine we were all very concerned and spent some hours waiting for the doctors to do tests, xrays, etc. During this period Dilan's general health was up and down dramatically. At around 21.45 the xrays showed a lung infection which was hindering her breathing, this in turn was stopping everything else from working properly, they inmeadiately administered anti-biotics Jennie and Gareth had a few tense hours.
By about 23.00 she had settled enough for them to feel they could return home, she was still having some bad times but the staff felt they were managable, by about 03.00 the drugs should have kicked in.
As of 07.00 this morning (Thursday) Dilan has, once again, managed to fight her way back to some sort of normallity for a baby in her situation, and she is stable, lets hope the anti-biotics start to get rid of the lung infection today and that Dilan can go back to doing what she does best, growing bigger, getting stronger.........and sleeping peacefully !!!!!!! Once again the next 24hrs are important.
Well tried pics again but no luck, so just me writing again. Pleased to say, nothing new to say, all is well, visited Dilan this evening and she is doing very well and looks great, possible big day tomorrow....... not for Dilan, for me!! Been told if all is well I will be able to hold her for a while, thats one picture I will be posting !!!! So dear reader I will be back tomorrow, In fact in 24hrs...
24th July 2006, Have tried to up load a new pic this evening but for some reason it won t allow me!! So this evenings report wil be easy
GOOD NIGHT
GOOD MORNING
GOOD AFTERNOON
GOOD EVENING, including an hour and a half cuddle with mum and dad.
Good Day all round, great isn t it !
Good Night !! For 24hrs.......................
23rd July 2006, Okay, well after last nights hiccup I am pleased to say that once again we appear to be back on track, as I said Dilan was put on nutrients last night and as of today she has started from the top with the milk, on 0.5ml and building up by 0.5ml each hour, when I left the hospital she was at 1ml and rising, so thats good. It is now most likely that she was just tired out yesterday as I said.
We all noticed that she looked a lot healthier today, as you can see from the pic the new breathing mask is smaller and we therefore get to see her face more often. So there you have it, another up and down roller coaster 24 hrs. As mum and dad return home for the night all is well and our babe moves on another 24hrs........
