Day +5

Day +5 started off a little bumpy and with a change of scenery.  Addie had a really difficult night due to some difficulty with her lungs.  Yesterday afternoon we noticed that she was breathing rapidly and was requiring a little oxygen to maintain a proper oxygen saturation level.   As the day went on, this slowly worsened.  She required more time for her oxygen levels to rise and she was working much harder to breath.  An X-ray was taken of her chest and it showed that fluid was in her chest.  Throughout the night we tried a few things to address this and nothing was really improving. A decision was made to transfer Addie to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU).   We arrived in our new room, hopefully only our temporary home, early this morning!  They transferred her to the PICU for monitoring and to insure that if her breathing worsened they would have the ability to address it!

They are really wonderful up here and we feel incredibly taken care of.  Addie has been much more comfortable since we arrived and her heart rate and respiratory rate are a little better!  She is getting oxygen and is being monitored closely.  The worry is that Addie may have pneumonia or another infection around her lungs.  They placed her on a few different antibiotics for prevention of these and will continue to monitor her vitals and take daily chest X-rays to determine what the treatment should be. At this point she is stable and being managed very well!!  

Please put those prayers in overdrive tonite and lets pray this yucky lung stuff away.  Pray that the fluid would vanish and Addie would begin breathing normally again!! Please pray that there is no infection and if an infection is brewing that the antibiotics would take care of it!  Please pray that our time here in the ICU is short-lived and that we don't find ourselves in any emergent situations!  Please Lord heal my sweet Addie Bean, mend her organs and let her body begin to support itself once again!  Please Jesus let those counts rise... Neutrophils, neutrophils and more neutrophils!!!  

This is a rough ride... It is true that I couldn't prepare myself for what Addie was in for during this time.  How can you really adequately prepare yourself to see your sweet helpless child so sick?!  I can't praise the doctors and nurses enough for everything they are doing to keep my baby comfortable!  Tomorrow is a new day, always hopeful that it will be a better day!!  

Go Team Addie!

2 Corinthians 4: 17-18 “For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long.  Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever.  So we don’t look at the troubles we can see now; rather, we fix our gaze on things that cannot be seen.  For the things we see now will soon be gone, but the things we cannot see will last forever.” 

I can't wait to hear that sweet voice again and see that personality come back!!  How I miss my special girl!!  A little video to cheer us all up :)