EXCERPT FROM EMAIL TO FRIEND IN THE UK
This is again my Australian friend living in the UK whose baby girl is just 10 days older than Rose.
“We're going OK despite the setbacks. Rose's dodgy liver function numbers (bilirubin, gamma GT, ALP) are slowly starting to level off and sometimes fall, which is what they're supposed to do. Last week, they were climbing and her jaundice was deepening - always a worry!
She had the ventilator removed a few days ago, but is still receiving some breathing assistance via CPAP. With any luck she'll be off that today, and might even go up to the ward.
She's properly awake now that the morphine's clearing out of her system, and appropriately cranky when the nurses have the audacity to suction her airways! Shane reckons she says "Help!" After a month of not hearing her, her little voice sounds so sweet!
We're staying positive.”
This is again my Australian friend living in the UK whose baby girl is just 10 days older than Rose.
“We're going OK despite the setbacks. Rose's dodgy liver function numbers (bilirubin, gamma GT, ALP) are slowly starting to level off and sometimes fall, which is what they're supposed to do. Last week, they were climbing and her jaundice was deepening - always a worry!
She had the ventilator removed a few days ago, but is still receiving some breathing assistance via CPAP. With any luck she'll be off that today, and might even go up to the ward.
She's properly awake now that the morphine's clearing out of her system, and appropriately cranky when the nurses have the audacity to suction her airways! Shane reckons she says "Help!" After a month of not hearing her, her little voice sounds so sweet!
We're staying positive.”
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