Egleston Again Day 4/5

Avery continues to hang in there. The good news is that they are definitely not thinking surgery anymore and Avery got taken off of her oxygen yesterday and is doing great without it. The hardest part right now is that Avery cannot eat; she had 2 weeks of the good stuff and now knows what she is missing. She is fine when she is resting and sleeping, but the second someone messes with her to take her temp or blood pressure, she realizes that she is hungry and it takes at least an hour to calm her back down. Poor thing is just sucking away on her pacifier waiting for something to come out of it!

After her anesthesia wore off from her central line, Avery's heartrate continued to be low and that was concerning. So yesterday she had another EKG and the cardiology team came and looked at her and they determined that there is nothing wrong, that is just her normal heart rate, just a little low. They said that older babies can have low heart rates and since Avery is alittle older than last time, that is likely why it is lower. If she never came back to the hospital we would have never known the difference. They are continuing to watch her but don't see it as a concern.

So we are just trying to keep Avery from remembering that she is hungry and distract her as much as possible! She is getting better and is acting more like herself, so hopefully the worst is behind us!