Long overdue update.

I know, I know. It's been a while. We may have lost our audience. Let's see if we can lure a few of you back. Mikaila has been doing very well. She has been off of oxygen for 4 weeks now (I think)and really hasn't had any respiratory issues. Frankly, I'm not sure where precisely the canula is so let's hope her good fortune continues. We spoke with Dr. Schroader about her overnight oxymetry. If you will recall, the first attempt didn't go very well. Understand that the issues were technological. Each time she moved, the sensor failed to register an accurate reading. Dr. Schroader insisted that we should redo the overnight test in 3 weeks. Add the almost 2 weeks to get results and we are looking at another month with the monitor.

Mikaila was weighed last Thursday and she registered 8 1/2 lbs. We haven't weighed her since but she is likely approaching 9 lbs. At this point, Mikaila is getting 80mls every three hours. We tend to give her extra in the evening; for example, we fed her at 5:45 this evening and she eagerly gobbled up 100 mls. At night, we tend to give her a bit less (from 50-70mls) and let her sleep 4-4 1/2 hours. She still tends to spit up from time to time but that didn't slow down her recent, although admittedly brief, growth spurt.

Although our energy levels are at close to all time lows (we still average about 4 hours each night) we have ramped up our home improvement efforts. There is a significant project in the offing, one that requires immediate attention given Mikaila's pending mobility. Some time in the next few months I will be soliciting the help of my step-father Bill, and will pull out the carpet in the family room/dining room/living room area, leveling the subfloor and laying hardwood flooring- 1000 square feet of it. That is some project but the carpet is simply unacceptable. Thirty years of filth looms deep in the dark recesses of that carpet. We can't have Mikaila crawling on that disaster of a carpet. It has to go.

The physical therapist will make an appearance tomorrow. She will put Mikaila on a strict regimen of calisthenics comprised mostly of squat thrusts and that flab jiggling machine from the 1940's. Actually I'm not sure what she will do but I guess I will find out.

I hope this little fix appeased your Mikaila jones. More later.

BTW - we tried to upload pictures but the site is apparently having technical difficulties. We'll try again tomorrow.