Her eyes are open

Well after a stable couple of days, I can say that Raffy is finally showing some improvement. Her BP and oxygen sats have been great so they have started weaning her off some of the drugs. The muscle relaxants were stopped yesterday so she has been slowly waking up and even opens her gorgeous eyes for me (as you can see in the pic). The clot in her leg is also getting smaller which I was pleased to hear and there has been no sign of infection in her blood cultures for the last 4 days although they are keeping her on antibiotics for the time being just to be on the safe side. They have also been scanning her brain daily to make sure there is no brain damage and everything is perfect in that respect. And she has started back on EBM this morning. Once again, it is only 2ml per hour but we will slowly be building this up.

On the down side of things, an ultrasound yesterday showed that she has an enlarged liver. Apparently the Prostin she was on to keep her alive before surgery kept an extra duct open. Sometimes this happens and sometimes it doesn't is what I have been told. Anyway, because the extra duct has been kept open, extra blood is being collected into the liver making it enlarged. This is not life threatening and the doctors are not concerned about it at the moment but it may be something that needs to be addressed in the future. Overall, things are certainly looking up so I have a renewed sense of hope. I can't wait for her chest drains to be removed though. Hopefully this will be in the next couple of days seeing as they are only draining 1ml every 4 hours or so.

And one for the pram lovers :) The nurse we had today is 19 weeks pregnant and is not finding out the sex of the baby. So we got talking about what she had already bought and what she was going to buy. So far, they have been given a cot, changetable, car seat and bouncer secondhand from her SIL but she said she insisted on buying a new pram. I asked what sort (of course.. hehe) thinking she would say a beema or steelcraft or something so I nearly fell off my seat when she said a Cammy!!! They were tossing up between that and an MBU so I was pretty impressed and we spent the next hour talking about the pro's and con's of lots of different prams (they had certainly done their research so she knew a fair bit). It whiled away the time and made for a pleasant afternoon :)