Thursday 27 August 2009

Today we went to the pre admissions clinic. I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't what I thought it would be.

Katriona was weighed, measured and had a bloody sample done for cross matching. I had a chat with an anaesthetist, not the one who will be on for Monday though. She told me that if we are up first, which is what Dr Ray said, then we will need to be at the hospital at 7am! Bloody hell! She also said that if Katriona's cough got worse they would cancel her surgery. I hope she doesn't get worse because that would be awful, her surgery would not be for another week which is too long away. Everyone who see's her seems to think that because she is happy and smiling and so contented that therefore things aren't that bad. But compared to what she is usually like, she is really beginning to spiral down. She isn't as smiley as she was, she isn't as content as she was, she isn't feeding very well (she has actually lost 400g since last Friday) and she is not sleeping as well as she has been either. I can see the decline and compared to how she was she is getting worse. But compared to Keira as a baby she is great. But it should surely be based on her and not her compared to another baby?