A Collection of Facebook Updates

To save a bit of time, I'm going to copy my Facebook updates for those of you who have not seen them there...

Wednesday night:

My little Peanut is finally asleep for the night (at least I hope). Her temperature, pulse, and blood pressure are all up so the nurse gave her some more pain medication. Praying she has a restful, healing night's sleep.








Thursday morning:

holding mommy's hand 

Kelli seems to be in a pretty good mood at the moment. However, it was a difficult night for her (and mommy). For the first few hours last night she was waking up every half an hour. She pitched quite a fit when the nurse and I tried to give her medication around midnight. Then she woke up around 3:15 am and was awake and fussy for about an hour. She woke up once or twice more between then and now as well. Each time she woke up she wanted to have her arm rubbed or her hand held, so I moved my bed (aka reclining chair) right next to her so I could help soothe her back to sleep. Within the hour someone should be coming in to reduce her epidural and try switching her to oral pain medication. Hopeful that today will be an easier day for her. Thanks for all the prayers and encouraging words!

Thursday afternoon:

playing

Kelli's epidural is out and the catheter will come out when she gets her next dose of pain medication. Right now she is (finally!) eating. We've been offering her all of her favorite "junk" foods such as Doritos, chicken nuggets, fries...and the nurse offered ice cream, milkshakes, and lollipops. She has refused all. Today she finally said she wanted to eat something healthy. So, she is happily munching on an apple. Good choice, baby girl!




Friday morning:

trying to rest

Today's update: It was another difficult night for Kelli. She woke up a little before midnight in a lot of pain. Her temperature, blood pressure, and heart rate were all higher than normal like the previous night.  She needed to use the bathroom, but knew she couldn't move. She didn't want to use her diaper and wasn't successful with a bedpan. It took almost two hours before she was able to go. She screamed for quite awhile because it was so painful (which we were told was normal after a catheter has been removed). The nurse had to give her iv pain medication to help her calm down and get some rest. Afterwards, she was able to sleep for about 5 hours.
This morning she had difficulty using the diaper again and was screaming. A technician came in a bit later to trim back more of her cast around the inner thigh. Cast trimmings really scare her, and she screamed through that as well. (She's had her cast trimmed 3 times now.) Thankfully she is now sleeping peacefully. We may get to go home later today, and I'm hoping being at home will help her relax.