It's Harper's three-week birthday today! In three weeks of life our
girl has endured three brain surgeries (the first of which nearly took
her from us), numerous c/t scans and X-rays, countless procedures and
tubes and needles, feeding tubes, ventilators, multiple blood and plasma
transfusions, countless medications, and visits from nurses, doctors,
surgeons, therapists, and anyone else here at Duke (or so it feels,
anyway). Yet through it all, she has managed to make us laugh and smile
and has won the hearts of many special nurses and doctors who come in
regularly just to visit our little miracle. God is already using this
angel in mighty ways!
Today Harper was supposed to have a visit from the speech therapist to
start bottle feeds, but she continued to have issues with vomiting after
her feeds so they had to make some adjustments to her feeding schedule
instead to see how she tolerates smaller amounts more frequently. She
has started to show that feisty temper of hers and managed to rip two
feeding tubes out of her nose today! She's been taking down a little
more on her morphine drip this afternoon, and this evening they
increased the pressure on her EVD, bringing us a little closer to
possibly having it removed. Praying that all continues smoothly
overnight!
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