ABIGAIL NEWTON SMITH

Wednesday, 2nd January 2002 - Day 139

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Me again..... Unfortunately today has been very similar to the last couple of days for me really. Mummy and Daddy came in to cuddle me around lunch time and managed to settle me down a bit after a fairly restless morning. As you can see in the pictures I eventually managed to fall asleep on Daddy's shoulder. Very comfortable too, I can recommend it as a pillow...

In the evening I had my last dose of Xeroids (Steroids for all you new Abi fans who have not been following from the beginning), I hope they work as this hurricane thing up my nose is really beginning to annoy me a lot. I was so fed up by the this evening that I spent about 3 or 4 hours crying and fidgeting, with Daddy and with the doctors. So much so that they were considering giving me something to calm me down. When will they learn I do not like CPAP and if they take it away I will be much better behaved.... I am currently on around 65% oxygen from the CPAP unit, which is still quite a bit and hopefully the Xeroids will bring this down over the next couple of days and allow me to get off this thing on my nose. To get me to calm down Mummy and Daddy gave the nurse approval to cuddle me, which is great as she got me out for around a 4 hour cuddle and I fell asleep around 3am in the morning.

This evening Mummy told me she had come down with a cold and could not cuddle me until it was better, she wore a mask so she could talk to me safely and make sure that I did not catch anything new. I hope she did not get it off me as all I know is that it is a horrible cold and made me feel really poorly, Mummy does not look that bad but if I did give it to you sorry Mummy... What about Daddy does he have it.. I assume not as he is still cuddling me....

I am still on my 2 hourly feeds of 47ml, which is good that I am keeping it all down so lets wait until tomorrow to see if I get any better with the xeroids...

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Last Updated : 03/01/02.