Monday, July 28, 2008

At Home and Doing Well

We did indeed bring Katie home yesterday and she came home with an appetite. She requested tacos for dinner and she ate more than anyone else at the table. She was feeling good. Bed time was a little off because her schedule was thrown off in the hospital so she was still awake at 10pm even though I started reading stories to her to put her to sleep at 8pm. But once she fell asleep, she slept like a log and didn't wake up until 10 this morning. Surprisingly, Josh slept most of that time too.

Starting with the bedtime routine last night, we began managing for hypoglycemia. Just before bed, she had a snack of crackers and peanut butter and a mozzarella cheese stick and a glass of milk. The object was to put some protein and more complex sugars into her system that would last longer into the night, and some fat that would slow the absorption of sugars down even further so that hopefully she would wake up feeling fine this morning. It worked. She felt great this morning and she was able to sleep much later that usual. When she got up, she requested tacos for breakfast...

I'll post another update late this afternoon after I see how the rest of her day is going.

Art and Kathy, this part is for you. We lost the phone number you gave us. It went through the wash in the Ronald McDonald room at the hospital. So, we got your message this morning but we can't call you back. Call us at home.

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