A few minutes after last night's blog entry, we checked Niamh's oxygen level and it had gone right down to 85. Slight panic. The nurse gave her oxygen to get her back to 100. She told me not to worry too much about it but to keep the oxygen next to her through the night. Obviously we were worried.
One of the doctors came later on. She reassured me and said a virus could cause the oxygen level to go down for a bit. Yet she also said that if her symptoms don't improve over the next few days, then they may need to treat for suspected PCP.
That wasn't a great start for the night ahead. Then at 11.30pm, Niamh vomited again and Ng tube came out. We decided with the nurse to wait till the morning for a new tube. Niamh then fell asleep and slept very well all the way till 9am. She didn't even wake up when the nurse came in to do her blood pressure, etc at 2am and 6am. The oxygen monitor was on through the night and beeped very loudly every time her oxygen dropped. As the mask was close to her face it only happened a few times when she kicked it out the way (she hates it).
She has had an ok day, not fantastic amount of energy but some smiles and some giggles. She has definetely improved throughout the day. Her temperature is down to 36.8 and has remained stable all day. She is still having a lot of loose nappies, so still very sore bottom. Yet she hasn't seemed in pain today.
The Ng tube that was passed this morning came out again around 8pm this evening when she vomited. She already has a new one.
Her white counts today are 1.6, neutrophils 0.9 and CRP is down to 9 which is great news.
Niamh was weighed yesterday and was 14.15kg.
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