Day 37 - Mother's Day
MILLIE seems no better or no worse today.This is frustrating, because it is as if she is in limbo.
But she looks a lot better in reality than she does in today's photo.
As you can see, Millie still has lots of lines and tubes - which daddy refers to as "hospital jewellery".
Despite being poorly, however, she still managed to get her mummy a mother's day card.
It says "Mummy, the bigger I grow, the more I know I'm as lucky as can be, 'cos the nicest mummy in all the world, is the one who belongs to me."When mummy arrived at hospital today, the nurses gave her a flowering plant as an extra present.
The hospital staff do this for all the mummies on Mother's Day.
And while mummy was visiting, daddy tidied the garden and planted some herbs in empty yoghurt pots before going to the hospital himself.
Millie has put on 68 grammes over the past 24 hours, increasing her weight to 1.798kg - two grammes less than before she became poorly.
But this is likely to be inaccurate due to the weight of the long line, canulas and other paraphernalia attached to her limbs.
Daddy thinks it unlikely that Millie would have put on 68 grammes (the most she has ever gained in a day) while she is ill.He thinks her true weight is nearer 1.750kg, perhaps less.
But we won't know for sure until all of Millie's hospital jewellery is removed.
However, the increase shows that the Total Parenteral Nutrition - the nutrients fed through the long line into her vein - is working.
posted by Johann @ 11:01 PM
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