Sunday 20th April

Just a short post today as its late and bed is calling.

We spent most of the day trying to find Bailey a new bed. He is currently sleeping in his cot which converted into a toddler bed, but we are going to need it to change back into a cot for Niamh so hence todays mission :) Got to love Ikea solving these problems, although nothing really jumped out at us much yesterday. After looking at lots of shops today, Ikea seemed just peachy in comparison so back we went. Of course, it was just an excuse to buy more Daim bars and meatballs, but you get that :) Anyway, mission accomplished, now just to find the allen key amidst all that packing foam and cardboard :)

As for Niamh, Im not sure if she will still go in an open cot tomorrow. I found a little sore on her finger today that looked quite nasty. It looks like a blister and a bit infected at that. The doctors decided to start on her antibiotics immediately while they take a swab. The cultures take 48 hours to come back so we won't know what it is until Wednesday. I thought we were sailing through a bit too well, I just hope and pray its nothing serious and it wont set us back at all.

On the plus side her optiflow was turned down to 3 today which is great and she has been really stable on it too. The hospital had a powercut yesterday while we were there and the machines kept turning themselves off (kind of scary in an intensive care unit) the back up power was pretty slow at coming on, but in the kerfuffle, Niamhs optiflow had gone down to 0 but she was still doing really well! I cried tears of joy when we heard it had gone down today! When it goes to 2 its basically not doing anything so she is getting closer to not needing it.