This morning Kathy had her 6 week follow up appointment with Dr. M, her OBGYN. Everything looks good and Kathy will not need to go back until September. Hopefully at her September visit Kinley will get to go along because Dr. M and his nurse would really like to meet Kinley in person.
When we arrive at Children's Mercy we found Delores (nurse practitioner) visiting Kinley and she got us up to speed on the changes to Kinley's treatment. Before we arrived they had turned Kinley's oxygen flow down to 1 liter per minute, but Kinley was keeping her blood oxygen saturation in the mid to high 80s so they decided to move her back up to 2 liters of flow per minute. The dosage of erythromycin has been increased to help with the motility in Kinley's stomach and intestines. Also to help with Kinley's processing of food, the dosage on both her methadone and ativan have been decreased again. This decrease should allow Kinley to spend more time awake and that will help process her food faster. With these changes, that will hopefully allow Kinley to eat more, they have increased her continual feedings from 2 ccs per hour to 3 ccs per hour. And finally, Kinley has not pooped since yesterday so she has been given another glycerin suppository to help everything move through her a bit easier. What is that? I think I smell something already!
The biggest news of the morning is that Kinley will be making some new friends. Both Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy have been contacted to come and evaluate Kinley. Occupational therapy will work on Kinley's ADLs (Activities of Daily Living), this includes oral stimulation to help her get ready for breast and bottle feeding. Physical therapy is going to work on Kinley's muscle tone and head control. Occupational therapy has already stopped by, but Kinley was sleeping so she will probably have to wait until Monday to meet her new friends.
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4 comments:
Kinley- sounds like you are doing better and better each day, keep those poopy diapers coming so dad can get lots of practice. Hopefully we will be able to stop and actually see you on Wednesday when we come for another appointment in KC, cant believe it has been a month already! Time is really flying by. Kathy and Kevin-you guys are doing an awesome job on the blog..love to keep up on all of you. Hope to see you next week!
The Reeds
Glad to hear some more good progress on Kinley heading in the right direction. Keep it up!
The Millers
I'm so glad to see that Kinley is getting stronger each day. I'm thinking of your family and pray she comes home soon.
Kaci
You have really made some great steps forward Kinley, keep up the good work! I love the new pictures, Kinley has her mommy's eyes! Baby Chase is looking forward to his first play date!
Oh, and strange coincidence... our good friend Robyn (who also helped deliver Chase) works with your friend Jennifer Miller! Long story how we figured that out but what a small world!
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