Eating Food

Today, Amelia was cleared to eat solid food ... so we gave her food!  It was so great to see her not only eating, but wanting to eat food.  It has been several weeks since she wanted to eat on her own.  It was such a blessing and really warmed our hearts to see her eating.  She did not eat very much, but anything at all voluntary was a huge improvement for us.

She also had a significant fall on the level of the rejection meds in her blood.  After a week of not getting any medicine, the level has finally reduced enough to be back to where the docs want it to be for lab pulls.  Her kidney function continue to improve as well and we remove the folley.  We were excited this morning to hear her blood platelet count was in the 40s.  She had been ranging in the single digits.  This afternoon, she was back into the teens.  We need to remain above 50 to be able to stop the transfusions, so she is getting more platelets as we speak.

Amelia was up an walking around again today twice.  She is pretty shaky as we get her on her feet.  As she walks around the room, she slowly gains stability.

We were reminded again tonight about how fortunate we are.  Just after shift change, the was some type of emergency.  We notice a sudden quick and urgent flow of nurses and other personel past our room.  With how sad we are to be in the hospital with our Lady Bug, it could be much worse.

Please pray tonight for all the families on the floor.  For Amelia, continue to pray for her platelets.  We continue to wait for improvements here.  The doctors are not too concerned about this yet, and we take their guidance.

Blessings

The Moody's