Avery had another good day of progress. Not only is she continuing on the CPAP with about 25% oxygen, but she had her PIC line removed today! This means the doctors no longer feel a need to have access to quickly administer drugs and other fluids, so all medicine and food she receives is only via the tube into her stomach. She has received a lot of morphine over her short life, and as they've tried taking her off of it, she's started to display some symptoms of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (withdrawals), which account potentially for her general discomfort, trembling, and other like symptoms. They're treating it now by giving her slowly smaller doses about every 12 hours, and she should be able to kick the drug within a week or so thanks to the sit down intervention we had earlier today.
Wren's lungs look quite a bit worse than yesterday again, and she has been having some fairly sizable apnea/bradycardia spells where her heart rate drops and her oxygen saturation drops fairly significantly. It pops right back up when it does happen with a little help from the nurses. We met with a doctor again and discussed in depth the choices we need to make for her. We still don't know exactly what needs to be done, but the doctors feel like the situation is still pretty grim for her. Regardless, we do know that there is still hope for her and that she's a great little fighter, we just can't figure out what to do next. Tony and I gave her another blessing today and I felt like the "what next" answer will come clearly but it hasn't quite fully materialized yet.
We are tired, but continually strengthened by all the amazing people around us.
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