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Sorry about lack of updates.   Melanie took Nathan on her first camping trip ever,  in a tent on the ground.   I told Nathan to remember all the good details.   They will have a lot of fun.   Delilah is with her nanny and her fun cousins.   Olivia and I are hearing whispers of discharge.

First,  Olivia has been sating in the 71 - 68 range when deep asleep which is not good.   Luckily we had a great attending,  as usual.   The course of action was a blood transfusion then a catheterization.   A few days post op her hemoglobin was 17 and yesterday it was 14.  She was sating a lot better at 17.  So when she got her blood transfusion last night I was skeptical.   Turns out once she went into her deep sleep she was *drumroll please* 77 - 79 allllll night long.   I was beside myself and wanted to tell Melanie, but she so far out camping she can't get a signal.  

It was such a relief to see some good sats and no nurse coming in the middle of the night to put oxygen on her.   The other two hurdles have been cleared as well.   Her chest xrays look squeaky clean and clear,  and the chylothorax has been whipped into submission by the best tasting disgusting low fat formula ever.   Enfaport is almost $78 for 10 days and luckily Olivia is drinking it like it is gold.   THANK GOD.  

I would like to stay in the hospital and extra day to be safe but we have a shared room.   We have already had two different suite mates so far and they have been good babies.   Last night a poor sick boy moved in with a crazy bad cough.   His little brother stayed in the room too,  and is probably sick as well.   If you can imagine my face when I learned this I was freaking out.   We have kept our baby sickness free since November 1st and now our favorite hospital would get her sick buying her a an extended stay.   I asked the nurse but there was nothing that could be done.   There policy is to not have a sick kid share a room but with no rooms there was no choice.   The nurse quoted some DHH policy that it isn't a problem as long as all contact precautions are followed.   All nigt listening to that sad cough imaging the germs wafting over the divider curtains into little Olivia scratched up nose.   I managed to sleep but it was nerve racking.   With all this in mind the doctors would like an extra day but it comes to a question on what is worse her getting sick or discharging her to the RMH and seeing her doctor Monday.  

With the complete 180 turn last night and through this morning with beautifully high saturation I was just told by the nurse that it is pretty definite and she was sending our prescriptions down to the pharmacy.   Then the dad next door blew all sorts of stuff out of his nose.... Get us out of here!!!!

I am confident everything will be OK and if it is not we will leave our sickness free Harley Davidson Ronald McDonald room and haul butt back to the hospital.  

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