by Amanda Trumpower | Jan 23, 2019 | From Hospital to Home
I’m writing Part Two for today’s update because it would be easy for misinformation to spread by word of mouth. Especially if someone gave you a verbal summary of today’s update, you will want to read all the way to the end. 🙂 We haven’t made...
by Amanda Trumpower | Jan 6, 2019 | From Hospital to Home
I am not a fan of today’s news. We received a phone call yesterday evening from the nurse practitioner. Jayce has a urinary tract infection. To treat it quickly with antibiotics, they had to put his IV back in. He should immediately feel better once the...
by Amanda Trumpower | Jan 5, 2019 | From Hospital to Home
Jayce had a liver ultrasound yesterday. We have more information than before. We need additional time and tests to see what the future holds. The good news: Nothing they saw indicated a need for immediate surgery. The liver was the correct size and appeared to be...
by Amanda Trumpower | Jan 4, 2019 | From Hospital to Home
Today we got transferred to Nationwide Children’s NICU. Earlier this afternoon, the doctors informed me they want to do another ultrasound on Jayce’s liver. His skin is still too red. They say it’s because of high levels of bilirubin, a substance made during the...
by Amanda Trumpower | Dec 26, 2018 | From Hospital to Home
Christmas Eve was hard. It started with waking from a glorious sleep, a good breakfast of real food, and a morning visit to the kids with Mom, who gave Josiah a night off from hospital sleep with me to rest in his own bed at home. It was great to have a night without...