Smiles

Today there was a Valentine's day party in the family room, so Ashlyn enjoyed decorating a piggy bank, and eating her heart shaped cookie. You can't really tell in the picture, but she has frosting all over her face.

Lynnea had some more snuggle time with Mom, and she even gave me a couple of great big smiles, which was pretty exciting. Medically speaking, she's about the same today as she has been for the past several days. Her doctors decided this morning that she should have a PICC line placed because her peripheral IV's keep infiltrating and there's really no where left to poke this poor child, and it is important for her to have a working IV in at all times -- she gets all of her antibiotics through her IV, and if there were to be any sort of emergency with her, they would need to have an IV already available. Well, PICC lines have to be placed in the OR, so at 1:45pm, Lynnea and I were sent down to Pre-Op. We sat there until 5:15pm when someone (I'm still not sure if it was the anesthesiologist, or the doctor who was going to place the line) decided that, because of the gaping wound in her chest (there is a hole at the bottom of her incision site that became infected) they were unwilling to place the PICC line at this time, so they sent us back upstairs to the PICU to "get the wound issue resolved." On our way upstairs, we ran into Dr. St. Louis, who seemed extremely irritated that she was coming back up without a PICC line, but when we asked to speak to a doctor about the plan for the rest of the day, the resident came in and told us that getting a PICC line isn't that important and we'll worry about it some other time. Again, we're a bit irritated with the lack of communication around here, but as always, there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. Perhaps tomorrow they will put a PICC line in for her.