Saturday, May 8, 2010

Happy Visits and Excellent Fine Motor Skills

It was another great day with Lyds yesterday.  She is happy and interactive most of the time.  We enjoyed a great visit from Uncle Aaron, Aunt Lyndee and cousin Tessa on Thurs. evening.  We were surprised by another great visit on Friday from Kerin and Bernie, our neighbors and dear friends.  She was really happy to see all of them (but especially happy to see the guys).  She has seemed to prefer guys over ladies for quite a while.  Last night her nurse was a guy and she was even unusually happy with him (for being someone in scrubs).  Then, of coarse, she was happy to see daddy when he got there.  She patted his shoulder like she used to when he held her.
The doctor said she will get another swallow test in a few weeks to see if won't go into her lungs anymore.  Until then it's nothing by mouth, so we'd better get creative in distracting her from pointing to the sink faucets.  She's a good sport though.
Her fine motor skills are definitely back up to par since she figured out how to pull off the steri-strips on her incision. She pulled most of them off leaving part of it split pretty wide and oozing some blood.  I was pretty worried about it, but the surgeon resident who came to put more on said that there were three more layers of suchers below the top layer that they removed so the skin was still healing well.  He also said that the split open part is lower risk for infection than the closed part of the incision because it's a natural way of healing wounds.  Our bodies are truely miraculous!  Later on I thought she was asleep, so I took a nap, but  when I woke up she was asleep but she had pulled off the bandage and new steri-strips that the resident had put on.  Silly lady!  We decided to put a bigger bandage after that and Brian said it was still on this morning.
P.S. Sorry about the scarce pictures.  I forgot the camera one time, then this stay it was out of batteries.  Brian took the charger down so I'm sure he'll get some good ones.

1 comment:

  1. bilanzi2@yahoo.comMay 9, 2010 at 2:04 PM

    It was so great to see you all (minus Lydia) at church today. You looked so good considering everything you have been through. Lydia looks amazingly alert and bright in her picts...thanks so much for posting them. I think I can stop worrying so much now, but will continue praying for that sweet child.

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chillin' and grubbin'

Spenc and Lydia enjoying some brocolli (at least the taste of it for Lydia since she just sucks out the flavor and spits it out)