Saturday Morning Update

Dr. Ladd called us this morning to give us an update on Avery. She got the x-ray of her heart back (I thought it was an u/s but that's what I get when Lee talks to the Dr. and relays it back to me). She said it was a little hazy and got another one done and also compared it to another VSD small hole x-ray and they're the same. So nothing else is going on with her heart that we didn't know about.

The scan of her head has not come back yet. She said that she had that done just to make sure that all of the vessels, etc. had finished forming. She said that she was on the upper cusp of when the final development is completed in utero. She doesn't expect it to come back with anything wrong but she's doing this to rule everything out.

Good news is she took 20cc of formula last night! Apparently Avery has shown them that she is the boss and they've had to bow down to her. She will open up her eyes but won't become fully alert when they want her to. She'll put up her hand to her face and becomes stubborn like her mom. So they are only trying to feed her PO (meaning by the bottle/mouth) when she is crying/making noise on her own. So last night she was throwing a fit in her bed at feeding time and that's when they tried feeding her PO. She took half of the bottle which shows she knows how to eat. It's now just a matter of her doing it. It also tires her to eat so she can't do it every time.

So that was good news to get at 9am this morning. We will be visiting her a little later today. I don't know exactly what time though. Lee's car broke down last night and it's in the shop. We should find out soon if the starter sensor is the only thing wrong (please let it be the only thing wrong) because it's less than $100 to fix. I have a feeling we won't be doing anything until we know what's going on with it.

Off to find Jackson something to eat. I have been holding him off from eating Mac 'n Cheese since 8 this morning and I think my will has finally broken. I don't care but at 10:30 it's close enough to 11 to eat lunch.