Small Bump

Madeleine is doing fine but she's hit a little bit of a bump in terms of getting transferred back to HSC. We were hopeful that she would be transferred tomorrow morning back to HSC as she was tolerating her feeds very well on Sunday and through most of the day yesterday. Unfortunately, when Madeleine was switched to full feeds last night, she had some trouble with dumping-- essentially diarhea-- and the doctors have just slowed down the pace of food. This isn't a major set-back but with the Thanksgiving holiday limiting the number of staff at both Children's and HSC, she isn't going to be transferred to HSC until early next week.

In short: Its a disappointing slow point in her recovery but in the end,it shouldn't result in anything other than a short delay.

That's about all to report right now. Kirsten is on her way to the hospital to resolve Madeleine's respiratory plan. One of the downsides of being the healthiest kid in the ICU is that the doctors don't pay much attention to you and we've had some unanswered questions as to why the doctors continue to tweak her ventilator settings despite previous claims that the settings shouldn't be changed. I'm sure that Kirsten will get it figured out.

Thanks for checking in.