Oxygen Hood and Central Line

Yesterday was pretty difficult for me, but the doctors tell me that having Hope in an oxygen hood is best for her.  I am not able to hold her and can only touch her when the nurses are working on her.  They want to make sure her oxygen saturation levels stay in the mid-80s so that she does not get too much oxygen to her lungs and not enough to her body. 

Dr. Forbes, the ICU Attending Physician put in a central line last night.  It only took him 10 minutes and I am real proud of how well Hope held up through the procedure.  It scares the hell out of me every time they do anything to her and most of the time I can't be in the room with her, so it makes the worrying even harder.  She also had a chest x-ray and her lungs look great.  They may do another echo of her heart today, but we will find out for sure later.

Jerry picked up Destiny last night and she was finally able to meet Hope.  Little Jerry was also over his cold, so I took him in to see her too.  I think he was a little scared to see her, especially because she is in the oxygen hood.  He only stayed in there for a few minutes and then wanted to go back to the waiting room and play some more.

I had to take Jerry and Paul to the doctors this morning.  I missed Paul's appointment on Wednesday for his 15 month vaccinations, so thankfully I was able to get him in today.  I had the doctor give them both flu vaccines so that is one less thing to worry about.  I don't know yet whether I will have them get the H1N1 vaccination...it is just too new and that makes me nervous.