Recovery is a process

Sorry for the lack of updates. We have had our hands full with the girls for the last few days. 

Sydney ended up spiking a fever at 1am in the morning a few days ago.  At that time, we started her on Tamiflu and Tylenol.  Her temp of 101 broke within an hour.  She was very tired and did not eat well the next day. Steve took Sydney to the ped office, and they believed it to be the flu (H1N1) also.  We spoke to the cardiologist (Dr Falterman), and she gave us a few guidelines for Syd. 1)Syd drink 40 ounces a day,2) watch her sats,3) use anti-inflammatories, 4)and continue her aspirin.  Syd has done well. The strange thing is, she has not had a fever since. Her O2 sats have been poor.  Yesterday, Sydney looked good, ate good, and drank 50 ounces of fluid.  I could not understand why her sats were still poor. I changed her finger prob and as of yesterday evening her sats were 84 and heart rate 100---and while sleeping really deep---her sats were 77 and heart rate low 70's. (great!) I am beginning to wonder with the increase in her heart rate, that maybe, Sydney is trying to jump back into normal sinus rhythm.  Wouldn't this be great!  Sydney continues to be very pale though, but her labs (electrolytes) were off according to Dr Z (ped)and the most likely reason for the paleness.

Aubrey has had a little more trouble with the flu, but she is 2 days ahead of Sydney.  Aubrey's asthma has been the the main issue(along with some stomach upset do to drainage).  Last night, Aubrey's asthma began to quickly go down hill.  I was watching her peak flows decrease.  I called the on-call doc, which happened to be Dr Z---Thank goodness! He called in oral steriods, and had her change from inhalers to nebs treatments.  She looks so much better today.  I think we caught it in time.

All in all, the girls are looking better.  If there is no fever tonight, we may no longer be contagious. Steve has bronchitis, and I have been having on and off headaches, stomachs issues and general fatigue. Steve is on antibiotics, and I seem to be recovering also. If I had this, I hope it is done. This virus has been really strange.  A fever does not seem to be the biggest part of this flu virus we had.  Crazy.  Some people have a week of fevers and some barely have one at all.

I really want to thank so many of you for helping out.  I don't think we could have made it through this without you all. Thanks for bringing Aubrey's home work home, dinners, coffee, trips to the stores, supplies, constant checking in, and many other things.  You all are the BEST!!I hope we are on the other side of this.  I will pray Aubrey is done, and this is all Syd will get.

Lastly, I would like to ask for some extra prayers for a little girl named "Til".  "Til" is the granddaughter to a very close family friend. She is the same age as Syd ,with the same heart defect, that just had the same surgery (the fontan) yesterday.  Please, if you would, keep her in your thoughts and prayers.  She is going through the roller coaster ride of recovery, and my heart goes out to her and her family.

As always, thanks for checking in. Heart hugs,
Christy