Thursday, 23 December 2010
Today, we made a visit to "The Royal Children Hospital" for a follow up respiratory check with Dr Alan.
Little Princess had an oxygen saturation monitoring session at a lowered oxygen setting of 125 mls/min (from previously 250 mls/min) using the pulse oximetry machine (the white box device sitting on the chair in photo above) and the result was fantastic!! Dr Alan said, all she needed was at least 85% of oxygen saturation but our little girl had about 98-100% throughout, which was really good. He also said that she is well on track and adviced that she should continue to grow with enough oxygen. Because of that, her oxygen supplement was lowered to 125 mls/min from now on. This would be the lowest setting before she is breathing on air. Alhamdulillah!!
Her developmental progress has been fantastic!! She is gaining weight well, now 3.9 kg (50.2 cm in length), a gain of about 100g since her weigh-in during the community nurse visit at home last week. Since her last appointment with Dr Alan, about 3 weeks ago, she was never irritated or crossed or had any difficulty when feeding. Dr Alan was happy with her progress that in about a month time, if everything goes well, he planned to put a stop to her supplemental oxygen, completely. Yippie!!
Little Princess had an oxygen saturation monitoring session at a lowered oxygen setting of 125 mls/min (from previously 250 mls/min) using the pulse oximetry machine (the white box device sitting on the chair in photo above) and the result was fantastic!! Dr Alan said, all she needed was at least 85% of oxygen saturation but our little girl had about 98-100% throughout, which was really good. He also said that she is well on track and adviced that she should continue to grow with enough oxygen. Because of that, her oxygen supplement was lowered to 125 mls/min from now on. This would be the lowest setting before she is breathing on air. Alhamdulillah!!
Her developmental progress has been fantastic!! She is gaining weight well, now 3.9 kg (50.2 cm in length), a gain of about 100g since her weigh-in during the community nurse visit at home last week. Since her last appointment with Dr Alan, about 3 weeks ago, she was never irritated or crossed or had any difficulty when feeding. Dr Alan was happy with her progress that in about a month time, if everything goes well, he planned to put a stop to her supplemental oxygen, completely. Yippie!!
Hubby and i really cannot wait for her oxygen prongs to be removed entirely so that we can see her cute little face - without the tubes. We take comfort that this is not going to be forever. We just need to be patient and take things a step at a time. Please help pray with us so that she would soon grow big enough not needing any oxygen supplement.. Amin!!
She is one little fighter and she never complains. We are strong believers that positive things will come out of this. We take our inspiration from her!!
