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Saturday, September 26, 2009

26 september 2009

Hi ALL

Tegan has been off school for the past 3 days with a cough and a runny nose so it is probably ineviable that Gracyn will come down with the same.So far she has not been too bad,Hopefully this will not lead to another hospital visit.She is really happy and loves playing with her big brother.Gracyn,s appitite has improved and she really enjoys wheetbix and banana for her breakfast,Watties Beef and pumpkin for tea and can demolish a super wine biscuit in no time.Gracyn is a real roller now and fast, she can get from one end of the lounge to the other in no time she is also just starting to sit up by her self. OHH!! and two teeth coming through.
Hopefully we will have some good weather coming our way and maybe that will help improve Gracyn,s health. So roll on the good warm weather.

more soon

Steve,Ange,Tegan,Gracyn

Sunday, September 13, 2009

13 september 2009

We have been home a week now but it sure has had it,s share of up,s n Down,s.We ended up back up the childrens ward on Thursday Afternoon and Friday morning as Gracyn seemed to be going down hill.Gracyn managed to make her parents look like a couple of over protective gooobers.As soon as the nurses and Doctors came to sse her she was a bundle of joy with smiles and giggles for everyone.May be she just missed the place. After the doctors examinaion and a legnthy discussion we came to the decision that we could give her the same care at home if not better. We were to keep a close eye on Gracyn (as if we did,nt anyway)and if any change get back to the ward immediatly. She still has a bad cough which the doctor say may take some time to clear.

Lucky for us Gracyn has improved, she has her appitite back and is tolleratng her solids, sleeping well and saying "DA DA DA" very clearly, something i,m happy about.
Gracyn had a hearing test last wednesday,the previous test said that she may have some heaing difficulties. Something we found hard to believe as she was responding to our voices and various other sounds.Wednesdays test,s were all good, she may need grommetts but we need to go back in 2 months for more tests as this flu/virus/cold she has got a the moment may be contributing to the results.
So the plan is to keep her at home keep her warm and toatsie pie and hope she can shake this virus before she turns 1, which is not far away.

More soon
Steve,Ange,Tegan,Gracyn

Sunday, September 6, 2009

6 September 2009

We are home yippee!!!!

We finally got the approval to bring her home.Gracyn still has a cough and is a little bit wheezy. Nothing that we can,t deal with here at home. So it was a great fathers day for me to have her home and get back to some sort of normality, if there is such a thing.
This last episode was a 12 day stay at hotel Hutt Hospital, I did 3 overnite stays and Angela done the rest. Angela has been a rock during the time in Hospital spending countless hours at Gracyns bedside a testament in its self to the love she has for our wee Gracyn. Of course we have had our team of never ending helpers which has been great Thank you all.

I would like to think this is the last time we do a hospital stay but some how think it won,t be.Fingers crossed it is.

Hopefully the warmer weather will help with Gracyns condition so roll on summer.

Steve ,Ange,Tegan,Gracyn

Friday, September 4, 2009

4th September 2009

She,s on the mend wee hope!!

Hi all
i have just spent a couple of night,s with Gracyn in the Hospital.She was an Perfect angel for me on the first nite sleeping from 8.30 to 6.30am. She was still on oxygen and the monitors kept binging and bonging so at about 2am we turned them off so i could get some sleep. Last nite again she had a good sleep only awake at 2am because she was hungry.She went straight back to sleep and did,nt awake until 6.30am.i also had a good sleep as yet again we turned off the monitor.

The monitors i,m talking about measure her heartbeat and oxygen saturation, a probe is taped to her foot/or hand.If it does not get a good contact it sets its self off into a frenzy of beep,s n bongs that after a few days and nights drives you mad.Movement also sets it off ang gives a false reading so at night time we have resorted to turning it off.

Gracyn is on no oxygen at all today so far. We are trying this to see if she is ready to go home.After 12-24 hours without assistance the doctors will make a decision.She still has a cough and is less wheezy and is on the ocassional puff of ventolin to help here.
We will know tomorrow if we are comin home.

more soon
Steve Ange,Tegan,Gracyn

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

1st September 2009

It seems like Groundhog day in our house as it feels like we are right back where we started back in October with constant trips back and forward to the hospital.
Gracyn looks a lot better to me but here STATS say differently.She is still on the oxygen and seems to require more at the moment. Doctors say it a waiting game so i suppose there is not a lot we can do but wait.
i have a couple of days off this week to relieve Angela at the Hospital so she does,nt end up in the loony bin as the days are long when you are up in the ward all day and nite.

More soon
Steve, Ang,Tegan,Gracyn