After we'd been home from the hospital a few days, I got a call from the doctor that treated Ava. He said that her blood work grew some E. Coli and they wanted her back in the hospital for 7-14 more days of IV antibiotics. Ahh! My heart just sank. We were just getting back to normal and now she was going to have to do it all over again!
So... again, I got a babysitter for the boys and off we went to the hospital. We got there around 4:00pm and by 10:00, she had had 6 different nurses try to find a vein for her IV and from what I could count, 17 needle pokes. Finally they gave up and called the doctor. He said "stop torturing that poor baby!" and he gave the okay to just give the anitbiotics through shots. By the next morning, they had her preliminary blood work back, which looked like she was getting significantly better. And since there really was no reason to keep us in the hospital, and because Eric had been brokering deals with her doctors since day one, we were able to go home Friday if we promised to be back every day for her antibiotics shot. That's what we did. Yesterday was her last shot. The poor poor baby. Thank heaven for Eric, or we'd have had to stay there for a week.
She never wore it in the hospital, but I accidentally brought it home.
This is one article of clothing I wish didn't have to exist. So sad...
I feel a draft
Waiting to get discharged.
Our beautiful hospital room. She slept in the carseat next to me.That cage of a crib, didn't look appealing.
5 comments:
How sad!! I'm glad that things seem to be going better now. Those cribs are AWFUL. They look like the babies are inmates or something.
Oh my goodness--I am so sorry you had to go through that! I'm glad you are all ok now.
On the plus side, I think those pictures of Ava are the cutest things in the world. She is so sweet. It must have been heartbreaking seeing her in pain...
Hopefully you'll never have to go through something like that again.
17 TIMES???!! wow--you both are so tough! poor little girl. i'm glad to hear that she's doing better though!
Poor Ava!!! And you for you having to deal with it all. Hope she's feeling better and things get back to normal. She is so cute :)
I am glad to hear Ava is doing better now - and so grateful that you were able to spend your time at home - how lucky is that? I never knew they had hospital gowns that small- hopefully she won't have to go back any time soon - or ever for that matter!
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