As you can see from today's title it has been a pretty quiet day for Miss Kinley Seep Melcher. There have been some changes to her care though. None of them earth shattering, but all are positive moves forward on her long road to going home.
Based on Kinley's residuals (amount of food remaining in her stomach after a feeding) from last night they have decided to increase her continual feeds from 3 ccs per hour to 4 ccs per hour. Kinley began her 4 ccs per hour feedings at noon and her first residual check at 5:00 pm came back with only 2 ccs remaining in her belly. Way to go baby girl! Continuing the trend from yesterday, and the day before, they have lowered the dosage on both her methadone and her ativan. She will continue to receive the same erythromycin doses (to help with stomach and intestine motility) every 8 hours and her oxygen settings and support will be left alone today. Kinley is still on 21% oxygen (room air) at a flow of 2 liters per minute.
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