Quick Update

Happy New Year everyone! May 2012 bring us all HEALTH and happiness!

No new pictures today since my memory cards are full but we'll be buying another one tomorrow.

Katelyn is down in pediatric intensive care and is doing amazing! On the day that she was transferred she was at 100% oxygen saturating between 75-85. One week later her oxygen is down to 40% saturating between 90-100.

In the past we had a lot of trouble weening Katie off of dexamethasone (a potent steroid with bad side effects) but she's officially off of it and is now on a physiological dose of hydro cortisone. When you're given steroids your body stops producing it's own so she's on a dose that her body should (and with time, will) produce.

Being in the PICU is a big change. Although we'll forever be grateful to the neonatology unit, it was time to move on. The NICU isn't equipped to deal with a 13lbs intubated baby. There was a point where she was at 100% oxygen saturating at 64% for a while and the doctors and inhalos just stood around her crib, shrugging their shoulders,not knowing what to do. Thank goodness someone had the brilliant idea to call one of the big doctors from the PICU who came up, made some changes to the machine and made everything better again.

We had some incredible nurses who we miss dearly and some that we're incredibly happy to never see again. The last days in neonatology... days where Katelyn was going through so much (reintubated, collapsed lung, infection on top of infection) is when a lot of people showed their true colours. Some people told us that she wasn't going to survive. Some people told us that this is just a little bump in the road. Whatever anyone said (or ever says for that matter) is just a reflection on themselves. I've been a much happier person since I've learned that. No one knows what anyone else is capable of. Especially when it comes to Katelyn.

I'm really enjoying the PICU. After 5 1/2 months we're FINALLY allowed to have visitors! Daniel's sister Cynthia met Katie 2 ago for the first time and my brother Brandon met her for the first time yesterday. Family is such an incredible part of healing so it makes me so incredibly happy that Katie can finally meet people that love her so much. :)