I got to hold kenadie today!

That's right. I got to hold the princess. That made my day. She is also out of the icu too. We are back on the regular floor. Can't tell ya how happy i am about that. Part of me liked the icu because the nurses there just watched her like a hawk and did all of the care. Now they are like mom you do it. And they keep forgetting her feeds. I dont know how to mix the stuff and connect it. I did with her NG feeds but now she has totally different tubing and what not! Ah i so want out of this place. I like this hospital but man i am getting tired of everything.
Kenadie still has fluid on her lungs. They are giving her breathing treatments, iv lasix, and will be doing chest therapy soon. She is on oxygen but only a little bit. She likes to destat when she sleeps. They dont have her in a sedated state anymore. But they are giving her tylenol with codeine and toradol. Her wound site is pretty irritated so we are praying really hard it is not an infection trying to come out. Not what we need! We actually see a light of some sort.
We are going back to dallas after she is healed from this. They say it will only be a day or two. Just for observation and to run a battery of tests on kenadie's heart. I fear that u/s machine so much. It has delivered news i did not want to hear way too many times! Hmm maybe if i give it a swift talking to then it will listen! One could be ever so hopeful.lol.
So i am the "mom" on the floor. The nurses asked me if i feel comfy helping those moms who are overwhelmed with their hossy stay and just help them find things. Bc sometimes you get tired of asking those darn nurses everything. Honestly i offered to do it. Something to make me busy and to feel like i am helping other families. This hospital we are at though they dont have long term patitents. Their patitents stay at the most a week or so. We have far blown those records out of the water. But any hospital stay can be overwhelming so me being the personable person i am have offered my services to them. I helped this one momma who had a 6wker in the hossy with double pneumonia and rsv. She was so devastated and just overwhelmed. She was tired of the hossy at 2 days. So we sat down and chatted.. Talked about our babies. Things we wanted to do. And i checked on her daily and just gave her tips on how to survive and cope. At least some things i have learned thus far. I would like to think i made a nice acquaintance. Btw she got discharged yesterday. Kinda miss them already. They were part of my coping also. :)
Well we are going into week 10 of this mess. Oh i am getting questions like can i donate toys for the girls. We have PLENTY of toys for the girls! Thanks for offering. We do appreciate it. I am not asking for anything but if you feel the need to donate we could use fast food giftcerts as we dont have time to really cook a meal and well hossy food gets old sometimes. Or just a gc in general as we can get whatever the girls need as they pop up. Again I AM NOT asking for anything we have just been getting emails asking. Thanks again so much for all the support from everyone who reads our blog. We appreciate it so much.
ETA: She just pooped for the first time on her own! YAY! Smelt like her uncle zeph but we will take it! They were concerned as her bowels are really full. They gave 3 suppositories and an baby lax thing yesterday and got very little out so they were on alert for a bowel obstruction. But as i was typing her update i smelt something FUNKY! 1oz of poo. (they make us weigh her diapers)