Our little sweetie continues to impress us every day. Little Miss Ella has moved to a low flow nose cannula to help wean her off of supplemental oxygen. Essentially she was on 30% oxygen at high flow (4 liters). When the doc tried to reduce the flow to 3 liters she did not tolerate it. So they are doing a modified approach whereby they put her on 100% O2 at a very low flow (.5 liters) which allows her to take in more room air (which is 21% O2) to even out the amount of oxygen she's taking in to be about the 30% level she was receiving. She did so well on the .5 flow that they reduced her to .2 flow within an hour. Gold star day.
On another note, today she also had blood work done to check her cell count. Her cell count is holding steady from last week at around 30. If she dips into the lower 20s, she will need another blood transfusion (she was at 21 when she received her first transfusion), however all signs are looking good. Better yet, her reticulate count (her ability to make more cells) is high which means that a blood transfusion is even less likely. Since her body knows how to make more, giving her blood now would teach her body to shut down production.
Whew! That was a lot of technical talk. We'll try to keep tomorrow's post less complex. : )
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