Monday Morning

Today will be a regular trip into clinic this afternoon to see how Rebekah's blood counts are doing. With it being a holiday, Grandma M has the day off and will come to the house to watch Sarah while Mommy and Rebekah go into clinic. That will make it much easier for Mommy!

Rebekah seems to be doing ok right now. The claritin seems to be helping. She continues to ask for her "blue" medicine (morphine) periodically and wants lotion on at night time. It does seem, that once she has the lotion on, she falls to sleep. Go figure! Although, I will say that I have given her a lotion with lavender and other ingredients to help soothe to sleep. Maybe we need to add lotion to the regular bed time routine. If it helps put her to sleep, I'm all for it.

The stool softener did it's job and I was a bit sorry for giving her the second dose. The next morning was a bit messy, several times. It seems to have settled down now and other than a little bit of a rash that cleared up fairly quickly, she doesn't seem any worse for it.

I got some new nutrition bags to try that do not use the pump, but just gravity. They have a clamp on them, so that between that and the height of the bag you can have good control of the rate. I thought these might help with meal time larger feedings. I tried it out yesterday. It was not without its problems. When I put her to bed last night, I should have used a new bag and the pump (hindsight is 20/20), but I thought "I'll just slow the rate on the gravity bag and it'll be fine". Well, I slowed the rate down, but just after leaving the room it must have gone to nothing. When I woke up this morning and checked on her, she hadn't gotten much of the nutrition in her. So yesterday, she didn't get nearly enough. Uugh! I guess there is always something new to learn.

Yesterday was a busy day of moving furniture around in Daddy's office. Grandpa brought a table (work surface) for the "reception" area. It was a lot of work (mostly on Daddy's part), but the office is looking much better. Daddy had to do a lot of cleaning and organizing, too, as part of the project. With the furniture moved, he was able to get some of the trim in place and nailed in. I'm sure he feels better having gotten a lot of work done in the office yesterday.

Meanwhile, his cold seems to be bothering him and I'm not feeling to well either. I guess that is what happens during the winter.