Well Purna was great today. We did some rose pruning in the back yard. However really not intrested in sleeping again. She is not wanting to go to be tell like ten. I'm not sure want the deal is but she is just on fire and wants to go crazy and play. So we played more cup and ball on the table. I wonder if it's her antibiotics? Who knows...
Her stiches are really breaking now. I even pulled a few out. They are just sticking up all over. I can't wait to get them cut out. I bet she can't either. She is defenently looking more like herself. Her eyes are still pulled kinda tight. You can't see her eyelids yet. A tiny bit on the left eye. I just really had no idea what to expect. They tell you things like what they are going to do but it's either to much info at once or you just don't get it. I know I said this before but it's very very strange to all of a sudden have your baby look different. I mean she is still the cutest thing ever.
I'm really trying to feed her alot. I think she has put back on a little weight. Or I'm just getting use to it. Not sure. There is almost no hint of brusing on her face anymore. Tomorrow will be two weeks. She is really back on track(other than the sleeping) for just two weeks. It's amazing.
Not alot to report today, just happy healing Purna. Here are her shots and video for the day.
Here is her new trick she learned while eating. All you parents I bet you have "never" seen this before. (ya right)
These are Pruna's peeps. They have the same doctor as Purna so they were hanging today talking about they heads. These adorable little girls are Brents (very good friend of ours who loves Purna dearly) neices. They came over today to show Purna their new helmets and Purna wanted to show them her scar. Purna loves other kids and babies so she had a great time with the twins.
Purna hung home today again and just relaxed. Not alot of napping going on that's for sure. It's 9 o'clock now and she is still up parting. I think she is all hopped up on antibiotics. She is playing roll golf ball and yell into cup. I want her to play close your eyes... Night night. Did not get her to bed tell ten.
The good news is her cut is looking pretty good. Alot less red then yesterday. Nine more days of hiding her meds in her food. She was a good girl today. We took two walks one in morning and one after dinner. She really enjoys this. Doing just great.
She just has a tiny spot of bruse left on her face. By the time she gets home only the inside healing will be left. In about six weeks the bones in her face should be pretty suck together and solid. Apperently babies bones heal very fast. It will take about two years though for the gap in her skull to close. I feel like she needs a little bike helmet for play time. I'm very nervous for her to fall. She can't take a wack to the head like other babies her age. But she is not the first baby to have this done and they get threw it, we just have to be carful for a while. She will be just fine. Well I have less and less to report each day. This means good things for Purna.
Another point with convition by Purna. To bad this is not an Olympic sport. Just look at her form and finger postion. And the foucus come on!
Purna checking out the helmet wishing she had one too. She loves her new cute buddies.
Another "thiller" of a video clip. Get ready! I tried for some degawls in this footage. I got some but not her finest performance.
Purna was a pretty happy girl today. She did stay home all day today. This was the first day in a bit she stayed home. Me however did get to go out to dinner with some friends. I got home at about 9:30 and as soon as the front door opened she started crying and woke up. She is only sleeping in her crib for about and hour or two then it's in bed with me. I'll work on getting her back in her crib when we get home. I don't think she ready to be crying for long periods of time yet. Joe went home yesterday for the week and will come back next week and get us. Were doing fine so he headed home to catch up on work.
So we had a bit of a set back today. Purna's cut is looking a bit red and a little infected. I called Purna's doctor and told her and she put her back on antibiotics for another ten days. She was only off them for one day and it flared up so back to it. She has to take these one 4 times a day and more each time. This is not going to make a happy Purna. I have been putting it in her food which is working great. So hopfully it will not look worse in the morning but the same or better. She does not need an infection in her head. We bought a triple antibiotic cream to go on top as well. She should be good in a day or two. That is not something you want to mess around with. You can kinda see the red in the pictures. Alot of her stiches are breaking now too. Hope that is ok.
I did give her one hit of the old tylenol today. It's just so hard to tell if she is just fussy or uncomfortable. Or she is fussing because she is uncomfortable.I usally go with uncomfortable just in case. But she has only been about once a day with that. She seems for the most part comfortable, unless you touch her head then she has somthing to say about it.
I feel like she might have put a little bit if weight back on. I need to weigh her again. It's like she lost muscle tone too. She just feels so petie went I hold her. I also saw some very noticable changes in her eyes today. The right eye on the inside is not beening pulled over so tight. Super suddel I know but I study her face all day. She just has now a little hint of her black eye left. When she shuts her eyes they look really pulled up and her eyelashes kinda flip up. Kinda like went we use to scotch tape are eyes up and then your lids sort of flips up... Or wait did anybody elese do that?
Four more days tell her post opp check up. I hope she passes. She will have to see the docs again in three months then in six months then once a year tell she is six years old. They really keep a close watch on their kids. There is a small percentage of kids that have to have a second surgery but I say no way! I don't think she would be one of them as long as all the healing goes as planed.
So Purna is still healing along and other than her cut getting red she is still doing great. She does already miss her daddy. She did wake up this morning saying dada. (and Im not making that up to make you feel bad Joe) I guess while daddy is gone I'll just have to turn her back into MOMMIES girl!! And I miss Joe too! Thanks all Purna's Peeps for checking in on her!
I'm telling you people gets some popcorn because this footage is just action packed. It dose however showcase her new word. If I was going to try to spell it it would be ..... Heda.... Kinda sounds like hey dad. Sorry Shelly no Degawls. I will try for that tomorrow. Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Clearly I am the first one to realize that Purna has a binki addiction. We are going to seek some prefessional help when she is fully healed and wants to stop for herself and not us. I think we might have to go on the show intervention. I'll tell you what though, seeing my little peacful Purna sleeping comfortably away is the best feeling ever!
She is feeling great and this makes me feel amazing. She still has swelling on her eyes and they are still a bit brused. They are still pulled quite tight, again due to the swelling and stiches in her eyes. They are also still pretty uneven. The doctor did tell us this was normal and as they healed they will become more even. If they don't loosen up I'm going to see about a discount on the surgery. Don't worry they will. Alot of her stiches are still breaking free. Its like the Hulk ripping his shirt off but is Purna's brain busting the stiches because its getting so big and smart. Her cut just looks better every day. Her little healing cells are just go go go 24 4 7. She is still eating really well and nursing is back to normal. Here is my theory on why she was not nursing well. When she sucks I can see her soft spot on her head move in and out a bit. I think there proably was some type of suction pressure in her head that did not feel good. She would start and then and then quickly stop. Now that she is healed a bit is not a problem. Who knows I'm just glad she is back to eating. She has some weight to put back on.
We went on a after dinner neiborhood walk this evening. She loves that because as we all know Purna is a very skilled pointer. There were many things that were point worthy on our walk tonight. Purna did go in her pajamas, hope the neibors did not mind I mean it's not like we went to Walmart in our pajamas. And no I was not in my pajamas.
I'm pretty sure all this "new" room in Purna's head for her brain has already made her much smarter. We now have a new fun trick she can do. It's called "wash your hands" she has been watching all of us day in and out sanitize our hands and now when we do it she copies us. She will rub her hand together like she to is washing her hands. Not to be confused with "start a fire" this is a completely different trick. I'm pretty sure she learned to "copy" from her dad. I'm now very excited about all the tricks she will be doing. Also she is finaly starting to do some of the sign Languge I taught her. The sign for finished is puting your hands up and twist your wrist. She is now doing this sign as soon as I put her dinner bowl down when were "finished " or when she is "finished" eating. And she has now figured out that she can be "finished" with alot of things she dose not want to do like diaper changes and cleaning her head. I'm always looking forward to what new things she is going to do tomorrow.
Never to young to appreciate shoes.
Bath time in the kitchen sink.
You can see in this shot how her eyes still have healing to do and are still uneven.I'm not really sure how close to even they will get.
I'm going super blogger and adding video. This is two of Purnas tricks in one video.
Well as you can all see we decided to get Purna some prostedic piggy tails. With all the public appearances she has been doing because she is feeling so good we did not want her to get a complex about her missing hair and scar. We just don't want her to become depend on the piggy tails, it's just to get her threw these first few weeks of healing. She is really happy about her new "Bebe Doo"...(thanks Jen)
One more great day for Purna. She is just more and more like her old self. She still get the case of the winnies here and there, expecially for diaper changes and at night when she is tired. She is enjoying her baths again which she was not for a while. Mainly because I have to wash her head really good and the stiches snag really easy. Alot of them are breaking now. It's healed pretty good at this point. Just those two little spots that are taking a bit longer to heal. Today was her last day of her antibotics which she is going to be very happy about. So were down to just tylenol as needed. Today she just had some early this morning like 6ish and was good all day. She did not even need some for night night. I'm guessing that her head must feel quite alright. Now we just need to keep her cut clean tell it's completly healed shut, which it's pretty darn close. Still amazes us every day how fast she is healing. The docs told us she would and eveybody I talked to is like "O babies are so resilant and heal so fast" and I'm thinking yea sure you just trying to make me feel better about what is about to happen. Well crazy they are right. I guess the docs have seen it a time or two. I was sure they were trying to pull the wool over my eyes. The only real problem were having is Purna not sleeping in her crib. Which is not really a problem in the big picture so she is doing super.
Today Purna went downtown to the Portland Red Cross to thank in person a very kind lady named Peggy who works there. Purna needed a blood transfusion in her sugery. We did somthing called a direct donation were my parents donated blood and it was used for her surgery. This was so we knew for sure what was going into my baby. She took a full unit of blood and they reclaimed her own blood and pumped it back into her. This is standard for this surgery. As we all know our heads bleed alot so they need to replace it. Anyways back to Peggy, it was kind of a confusing process to have done and it has to be done all within 7 days of the surgery so that dose not leave alot of room for confusion. I called the Red Cross not even knowing how or what I was asking for I just explain my situation to Peggy. Now there are people who are good at there jobs and that's just dandy.... But Peggy is the defenition of above and beyond the call of duty. I was not just a voice on the other line asking dumb questions to her I was the scared mom who's baby was about to have surgery and did not know what to do. She pretty much held mine and my parents had threw the who process to make sure there were no mistakes and the right procalls were met to get my parents blood to Purna surgery. Thank you Peggy.
There were just so many people that were a part of this process that see this thing every day. There were ones that just see it as another day at work and then there were ones that really see and feel it for what it was to "us". There was a kind ICU nurse John that knew this was the worst day of my life and was as concerd about me as Purna. He even took the time after we left ICU to come see us on another floor to check how we were doing. These are the type of people that make an experance like the one we just went threw that much easier. And it all counted I'll tell you. Somthing so simple to someone might mean the difference between mental break down or not. Thank you kind nurses I hope the kindness is returned to you some day.
Joe with Purna's piggy tails on
You can kinda see the plates on the side of her head. And a pretty forhead.
