From the CarePages, today at 12:06:

Of course, like the weather in Cincinnati, the plans for Sam change by the hour, too. Shortly after I posted yesterday, I learned that since they can't do dialysis on the floor in rehab, they were having difficulties scheduling Sam once she transferred: the dialysis unit has a tricky schedule, and the nurses there don't deal with trachs a lot; the other choice was to bring her back to ICU for dialysis, but that's a major headache in terms of expense for room turnover and things of that nature. (Not to mention that once Sam vacates a room, everything has to be scrubbed down/sterilized/burned/thrown away due to the infection in her stool.)Anyway...the new plan was to move her tomorrow, right after dialysis; that way, the kidney docs get a last dialysis in before the transfer--they want to then try to let her go a week w/out dialysis, and see how she does. That would all have been swell, except that her admitting rehab doc won't be in tomorrow, and--just to add another twist to the saga--she's vomiting again (puked so hard her feeding tube fell out), so now they've scheduled an upper GI for this afternoon, so they can make sure there's nothing anatomical causing this. Of course, it's better to tie up all these loose ends before the transfer, and we want a resolution as far as the vomiting. Everyone agrees she belongs in rehab, though, so it's just these few last-minute snags...arrgh...but the plan, at this minute, is to transfer her Monday morning, 9 weeks after her admission to the hospital. Other than that, she ran a fever last night, but brought it down on her own again, w/no meds. She had a nice bath this morning, and we gave her a much-needed shampoo, and then I made my best effort at braiding her hair, so she now looks like a little Swiss Miss. She's also getting quite good at brushing her teeth by herself, and really enjoys it when I "dance" w/her by moving her arms around--she was all smiles for that. Send some prayers her way for a quick fix for the GI problem, and a calm weekend in the ICU before she begins the next chapter. I'll try to post again later if I get any news today.
Thanks,
Jessica

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Still in our prayers, we're so glad you're getting more and more time off from dialysis, and hope that the tests show your kidneys are working as they should!

Oh, Mommy Jess, we need Swiss Miss Sammy pictures!!!!!