Well... I feel like we are back in the land of constant changes. Not always changes for the better. This morning, Serenity had an ultrasound of her right lung because they had seen some fluid in an x-ray. This fluid ended up being between her lung and her rib cage. This is not an okay place for fluid to be hanging out. So, a procedure had to be done in order to remove the fluid. There was a butterfly needle (VERY tiny needle) inserted between two ribs and the fluid was (not to be gross) sucked out. They extracted 27 ml. of fluid (which is a lot for someone as tiny as her) which looked like it had quite a bit of old and new blood in it. The fluid is being sent off to be cultured so we can know more of what it might possibly be. In the meantime, we will be watching to see if more fluid builds up. We don't want this to happen. Preferably, she will stay fluid free! Also, ever since the procedure was done to remove the fluid, Serenity has been resting so well, and they have been able to go down on her vent settings considerably!
Now, on to other business. It appears as thought the bottom half of her intestines are not functioning at the moment. Thankfully, the top half is at least functioning SOME (we think), but because her mucus fistula (bottom half of intestines) has been backing up, the stool in her ostomy bag isn't a true reflection of how much stool is passing through the top half of her intestines. The first step is to stop feeding stool into the mucus fistula so we can see how much stool is actually working it's way out of her stoma. Our hope is that everything is flowing through the top half of her intestines just fine so that she can continue feedings and hopefully GROW! As for the bottom half, there is talk of a lower GI some time early next week. We will see.
This is definitly a low point on the "NICU roller coaster"... Now we just wait for it to start going back uphill.
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