Day 4

TUESDAY

The morning of Day 4 came with more disappointing news. She had dropped oxygen again during the night several times and needed to be stimulated to start breathing again. Going home was not a possibility. She could no longer be in the room with us either she needed to stay in the nursery so that she could be monitored all the time and all of her activity could be charted.

This was definitely sad news but we tried to stay optimistic. The nurses were confident she could fix the problem on her own and we could be out of the hospital in one more days time. We spent the entire day in the nursery. The hospital let us keep using our room as a "hotel" stay meaning we could use the room for a small fee every night but there would be no hospital services given. Sleeping on a hospital bed was getting old and my back was starting to feel the effects. We prayed that day 4 would be the day Addison started breathing better and we could all go home the next morning.

My mom came and spent a good part of the day with us which made the time pass much quicker and by the end of day 4 Addison was looking pretty good. She hadn't had a serious de-saturation in her oxygen levels and the pediatrician said if we could go 24 hours without oxygen we could go home and take the pulse ox machine with us just to be safe. The countdown had begun and we were crossing our fingers it would be the last night we stayed in the hospital.

We went to bed about 11:00 and all was well with Addison.