Apple Spiders and Jelly Beans

Not much new with Lynnea today -- she continues to have a difficult time breathing, and at times her blood-oxygen saturation levels drop lower than they should. They did another echo on her because they are concerned about this; they are afraid that clots may be forming, so they switched back to an IV blood thinner to see if that will help. She also now has a "wound infection" (along with the blood infection that she's had for a few days now) in the site where one of her chest tubes used to be. They are giving her different antibiotics to try to kill off all of these infections.

Today when Ashlyn was visiting me here at the hospital, she was drinking her juice from her sippy cup, like usual. She handed it to me and I asked her what kind it was, so she told me that it was "apple spiders" (apple cider). I thought that was pretty funny. At dinner, we offered her some lima beans, which she's never had before, and she kept calling them jelly beans. She didn't like them (apparently, that's not what jelly beans are supposed to taste like).