look at the difference.....

The dreaded sleep over.................Daddy does not enjoy the sleep over. It is lovely being back on Maisie's old ward and seeing all the nurses that looked after Maisie but there is not a lot of sleeping to be done by Daddy.

Maisie's oxygen saturation was quite good at 92/93% when she was sleeping on her current flow of 0.3 litres. As Maisie seemed quite comfortable the nurses tried Maisie on a flow of 0.2l. Maisie coped quite well for an  hour or so before her oxygen saturation dropped a little - just to around 90% but the consultants require it to be 92% or above.

Maisie's oxygen was put back up to 0.3l and it takes a wee while to bring the level back above 92%. Maisie then settled with good levels up to 94% and so the nurses tried to turn the oxygen down again. Once more after about an hour and a half Maisie started to struggle a bit so the oxygen got turned back up to 0.3 litres.

Anything below 92% sets off the alarm on the monitor and it's this noise that Daddy will forever have nightmares about. Every move Maisie makes causes her sats to drop and when she's right on the limit the alarm seems to continually sound.  Maisie doesn't seem to happy with the noise either and was awake extremely early this morning.

Maisie's oxygen level will continue to be 0.3 litres for the moment. It's great that it's not got worse.

When Maisie was at the clinic the other week they requested that Maisie should have another urine sample to ensure that the urinary tract infection she had before Christmas had cleared up (Daddy wasn't so sure it had). Daddy and Mummy have not successfully collected a sample since so Daddy enlisted the help of the nurses - a sample was collected and the results should be ready for Wednesday.

Maisie only just fits in the cot on the ward, look at the difference;

Maisie in her cot in August

and............

in the same cot Sunday night,  six months later
(it's the same owl too) 

There will be another dreaded sleep over in four weeks time.