Happy Birthday Mommy!

Karsyn and Kaden must have known yesterday was my birthday because they decided to have a pretty low key day! 

Actually Mr. Kaden decided Karsyn was getting too much attention from the doctors and got a little jealous!  The nurse practitioner called us Thursday night about 10pm to tell us that Kaden’s color looked off and some of his levels were suspicious and they thought he might have an infection of some kind.  So they collected blood, urine and spinal fluid and began running cultures.  These cultures can take up to 72 hours to come back positive or negative, but by 5 pm yesterday afternoon they called to let us know that he did in fact have an infection in his picc line.  As weird as it sounds, this is actually good.  An infection was a much happier explanation for some of his symptoms and actually explained a small change in his head ultrasound from last week.  So as much as we don’t want him to have an infection, we were glad it wasn’t something far more serious. 

Karsyn was actually holding pretty steady yesterday.  They were able to come down on some of her ventilator settings, and seem to have found a position she likes to keep her lungs where they need to be.  We’ll keep our fingers crossed that the same holds true for today!

We’re about to head up to the hospital for the morning, and are then going to head to the Cole’s house for an afternoon birthday celebration!  My 32nd birthday was definitely different than any other birthday I’ve ever had, and obviously not ALL of my birthday wishes came true, but I’m so thankful for all my friends and family and to have been able to spend my birthday with my 3 precious children.