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