Finally, a pretty quite night...

So, last night was pretty quiet. My mom stayed at the hospital with Kyara and said she slept pretty well. Kyara is still very swollen in the face, but with time that will go away. She is also draining from the tube in her back. The stuff coming out is very thick, so the nurses are flushing the tube every 2 hours to keep it from clogging up. The doctors are going to add TPA (clot buster) to the tube and the area where the fluid collection is to try to liquidify the collection better. They have also decreased Kyara's respiratory settings again...one more step towards getting the breathing tube out. The doctors are planning on decreasing it again later today and start "sprints" to exercise her lungs tomorrow. Hopefully we will remove the tube later this weekend or early next week. We have to wait and see how she tolerates the sprints, but the doctors say she is improving and looking good respiratory wise. Otherwise, things are holding still and she is stable.

Kassey has begun to really crawl on her hands and knees at the RMH. She has been doing a military crawl for sometime and every now and then would get her belly up off the floor, but now she is truely crawling more often. I am sad I did not see this transition, my mom told me about it. For the most part, when I see Kassey it is to feed her or put her to sleep. Having been there for Skylar and Kyara every move, I feel sad missing out on Kassey's changes. I am beginning to understand how hard it must be for Gunars to miss the girls' first steps, and for any working parent to leave their babies for someone else to witness these milestones.