Sept 23, 2009

Late last night, they called to tell us they wanted to postpone Kelsey's surgery schedule for Thursday. The hematologist thinks Kelsey doesn't need to be having any kind of surgery right now. They want to wait and see if they can get her platelets up and hope they can do the open heart surgery to fix everything at one time (instead of doing the PDA first and then the open heart to fix the VSD later). She got more platelets last night and they are going to give her IGIV the next three days and see how she does making/keeping platelets. Her red blood cells are getting low and she might need more whole red blood, too. They are also doing several other tests to see if they can find out what might be happening to her platelets.

She looked good today and did well when Andy and I held her. She always rest and relaxes when we hold her. The last two days I didn't get to hold her because of all the trauma of the transport and then all her new doctors examine her on Tuesday. It was also good for momma to hold her baby girl today, too.

I won't know anything about my CCK test until Friday. I thought she might be having surgery on Thursday, so I didn't make my follow up appointment until Friday.

Please continue to pray Kelsey (1) starts making her own platelets and other blood cells, (2) the pressures in her lungs stay down and (3) she continues to grow health weight (vs. fluid weight).

Thanks for your prayers!!!!



Picture for today....


Nana looking over sweet Kelsey.