A nice relaxing Sunday

Today was pretty uneventful, but I'll take uneventful over bad news any day. We found out that Emma's state screening came back normal for a lot of the abnormalities that it tests for. She had a bad night from about 4:00 am to 7:00 am and slept the rest of the morning with one eye cracked. Then she was WIDE OPEN from noon to 6:00 pm!! We couldn't believe it - 6 hours straight is a very long time for a 5-week-old baby. So hopefully she will sleep really well for Judy tonight, who had to endure a lot of screaming for a very long time last night.

Emma's incision is looking better and better every day, but only if you know what to look for and where. We are gradually seeing the right and left corners starting to close up again, and we see more pink granulation throughout the wound. I think the granulation is there more than we know, but there's this yellow gook on top of it that has to come off first. Thankfully, with each dressing change every 12 hours, more and more of that stuff is coming off onto the medicine-soaked gauze that's stuffed in there. That little white circle that I've been concerned about may be more than a circle - it could actually be the end of a line of white that runs almost the whole length of the incision. This could more separated muscle than we realized. Whatever it is, we're hoping the granulating skin will grow on top of it, and we can just move on! One of the sutures came out today while the nurse was dabbing the wound, and I think this was one of the sutures that was holding the muscle to the skin. I'm going to be sure to ask the doctor tomorrow because we can see a few other sutures hanging out in there. If the muscle has separated, they're just going to come out, and there's not much we can do about it, but I'm going to ask about it just to be sure.

Some diaper rash has started creeping in again, and I'm NOT going to let it go on as long as it did before. I plan on spending all day tomorrow with her diaper open spraying her little hiney with oxygen if I have to. Emma's dealing with so much...why do we have to add diaper rash to the list...again?!

I feel great about tonight's nurse and tomorrow night, but I'm not so sure about tomorrow and Tuesday during the day, as well as Tuesday night. So if you need something specific to pray for, please pray for some good nurses tomorrow through Tuesday night. I know we're taken care of on Wednesday and Wednesday night.