Just a little note, gotta make use of time that both girls are asleep!! It practically never happens... Emma Kate had a cap and dressing change this morning, and she handled it really well- she had a lot of anxiety about the discomfort of pulling the dressing off, but once it was off, she recovered pretty fast and was fine again. What a relief to be done with it for another week. It's just so god awful. Also had labs drawn to make sure everything is still ok. We went into Roanoke to meet with the pediatric GI doctor we had seen briefly when Emma Kate's TP tube got vomited up right before we headed back down to Wake Forest in December, he's going to help us manage the PPN and get her off of it as quickly as she can manage without it. He seemed pretty pleased with how she has been doing, and is reducing her calories for the next shipment. We also get to reduce the hours she's hooked up, so she'll only be on it for 12 hours! That's just a little before bed and then off when she wakes up! It will be so much more manageable!
Emma Kate is still making some noise with her breathing, but I still think it's just gunk she's not fully clearing with a cough. She's gotten a little tired of coughing "on command" and when she does follow through with it, it's usually a weak little "pretend" cough that doesn't do anything. We spoke to Dr. Rutter's nurse, and we're going to watch her for another couple of days. My sore throat and cough have gotten better just recently, and I'm hoping hers will do the same.
Daddy goes to work again tomorrow, and we're hoping for a nice weather day so all of us girls can get out and make some good ol' vitamin D!
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