Afternoon update

Spoke with the docs when they were on their 11am rounds. They're worried about infection- an infection indication called CRP (?) came back at 2.0, when they want it to be in the .2 - 1.0 range. They're waiting for two test to come back- the CRP they ran this morning, and a blood culture test that they started at day of birth. The blood culture test, I gather, is basically a few drops of blood in a petri dish. They have to see if anything viral/bacterial grows on it. If the infection is really bad, it's difficult to keep vitals in range. But since they have been in range for twelve hours, we are hopeful the elevated CRP does not indicate anything serious.

On the bright side, they still don't see any signs of cranial bleeding. And they said she is "showing improvement" relative to when she was born - but they immediately qualified that, saying that we should need to stay realistic and not get too optimistic. So right now we are praying for stability in vitals, no brain bleeding, and no infection. Or if there is an infection, we are praying it is not serious and can be swiftly dealt with by a higher dose of ampicillin.

update: The blood culture came back negative! And the second CRP test came back at 2.0, so the docs said whatever it is, it is being controlled by the ampicillin. if it were serious then her vitals would be much mire difficult to control. Her 'crits' (hemocrits, a measure of red blood cells) are low. Could be indicative of just the blood draw, or a small cranial bleed. They are not too severly worried because lily isnt showing any signs of a bleed. So they are monitoring very closely, potentially another cranial scan tomorrow.

Drifting...