4 Months Today!

Yesterday was a rough day for the Jenkins family.  It seems Brinleigh had a nurse that does not know her tendencies of being... well.. just being Brinleigh.  Which means she can be fussy and ornery.  Brinleigh was irritable and ornery so the nurse assumed she was in lots of pain with her stones.  So she continued to drug her to the point of being totally knocked out.  When Carrie arrived at the hospital she was like... umm.. what happened to my baby she looks terrible.  She was very patient outside with the Nurse or so she says.. but was not happy and very hurting inside for Brinleigh.  Brinleigh was so out of it she could not eat and her oxygen levels dropped very low because she was so heavily sedated. She was having a hard time breathing on her own and her oxygen levels were very low.  It was scary.  It was very hard for Carrie and Dustin to see her so out of it.  Thank goodness for one of her primary nurses to be on Brinliegh last night to try to get her back on track and the large dosage of drugs out of her system.  It appears for now they are just going to let the stones pass since there are just allot of small ones.  They forgot to get the kidney team with them yesterday so Carrie had to remind them about it so that should be done today.  One of the nurses said she has never seen Kidney stones in a baby and the staff said they have only seen it a few other times.  Way to go Brinleigh you just keep everyone on their toes.  You are truly a unique little girl.

They also checked her eyes which she hates and all looks good they said but they will check them again in 2 weeks.

Today they will also do an Echo on her heart.  It is part of the process they need to do in preparation for sending her home.  However everyone is very nervous because it seems when they do something they find something new.  She has had this done before when she was real sick and everything looked good.  It's been awhile since then and we are all very nervous about it.

Nothing is simple with this sweet little angel.

Update: To elaborate on the difference in a nurse that does not know Brinleigh yesterday and those that do.  The Nurse on the day shift yesterday gave Brinleigh 3 doses of Morphine between 7am and 12 pm.  The Nurse last night gave her one her entire shift and she has had one so far today up till about 1:00.  The Nurses last night and today are part of her Primary care giving Nurses.

When they said they were doing the Echo they said they weren't looking for anything in particular.  I guess that was not the case they were looking for any signs of hypertension.  The preliminary findings are good.  This ride has not been fun for a long time now.