Nothing Left

Update: We asked them to try again. Imagine that. Asking for them to keep sticking your baby. Ashley desperately needs IV access in order to remain stable throughout this infection. She is stooling heavily and her vomiting has increased today. Thick, mucousy vomit.

They tried a smaller IV and finally got one to go in. Now we just have to baby it. For a long while. Our hope is to bring Ash home early this week with the peripheral IV in place(in all honesty this scares me. I have never had her at home with a peripheral, but she will be much happier here than where she is). The unfortunate thing about the smaller IV is that they don't last as long, but her little veins just couldn't hold the other size.

Anyway, we have an IV in place and for tonight I'm grateful to have it.


They've tried and tried to get an IV in Ash. She just doesn't have anything left. Her veins are tiny, the roll, they blow each time they get the neeedle in, and they've given up and are calling the doctor back.

I don't know what they are going to do. She's on an IV antibiotic for this stupid infection and after looking at the amount of medication that would have to be given via an IM shot it was quickly ruled out as not an option. It would take shots in both legs to give the med every single day for who knows how long.


Ashley Kate is the toughest kid I know. She amazes me with her strength. She's sitting in her daddy's lap looking around like "what the heck is going on today? What did I do to deserve all of this?" Guess what kiddo? You did nothing. Absolutely nothing to deserve one single solitary bit of any of this. I'm so, so sorry.