Friday, September 18, 2009
So yesterday we got the BIG news. As you all know Adriana has been taking her thyroid medication orally to make it easier for when she comes home. It would help so I owuldn't have to brake into her med line at all and it would make it better for preventing infections. Well I was told they would give it to her orally and after a week of that check her levels. Yesterday her levels were checked and they came back NORMAL. I was so excited when I heard that, especially knowing she is taking it orally and it's working. I never thought Adriana would be able to take her medicine orally, well the absorbing part. Things are turning around for Adriana and getting much better. She will continue to take her medicine orally and we will continue to check her thyroid levels to make sure things are normal. She continues her feeding but now is at 2ml everyhouur all day. She constantly is getting 2ml everyhour and never stops. I hope she does well with this, the doctor told me to knock on wood, we are trying to see what she can tolerate. She has never done this well with food since after she got part of her bowel removed. So if she is absorbing her medicine she must be absorning her milk too. I just know it, I mean her ostomy output use to be high without food it owuld range 150-170 and now with food it has come down to 110-120. It has been like that since her feeds started. As you may all know she continues to have residuals, if they are greater than 10 the doctor decides what to do with it. It works best with her to just dump it and start fresh, because if you just keep adding to her residuals it slows down her digestion and she will just have more to digest. I mean how could you really expect her to digest fast when her liver and spleen are squishing her stomach