27th october 2008

Hi All

We are getting hi-tech here in the Reid household and have set up this blogg page to keep everyone informed on Gracyn,s condition. What a great day we had and Graycn is improving everyday. She has now gone back on the c-pack system which means she is breathing on her own, a big step forward for my wee girl. This sytem looks like she is wearing a baseball cap with a mouthpiece connected to it forcing oxygen into her air ways. This is a much better and ,more comfortabe way to treat her, no big tubes down her throat. We will only have to hope she can manage this on her own otherwise the doctors may resort back to the ventilator system.
With her being so dependant on the ventilator is has caused a few issues with her lungs, they were not inflating correctly due to the long time on the machine, this is treatable by lying her on her left side to give her lung a rest. i am told that this can happen and is just unfortnate but she needed the ventilator to breath, a sort of catch 22 situation.
Gracyn is now feeding on Angela, Boobi juice 1ml every 4hrs and seems to be tolerating the food without any problems. i know she will be fine with the food as we Reids love our tucker. She now weighs 890grms, so i may be opening that bottle of Appeltons this week yippee!!.
Yes i got my lawns done and no Angela did not do them, funny that. We are going to try and get into a routine with our visits to Gracyn and get some sort of normality back into our lives, is there such thing NORMALITY.
i think this blogg will be a better way in keeping everyone in toutch with what is going on.

till the next update
steve,Ang Tegan, Gracyn