It was quiet on the ward today. Jasmine had her feed increased from 52 to 58 mls every three hours. She hasn’t put much weight on so far, and needs to build up. She was feeding well all day, but was sick at 7pm. She had just been filled up with 170 ml on the dialysis and the extra 50 mls in her stomach seemed like too much volume.
We took Jasmine’s blood pressure twice today, under the nurse’s supervision. The first time Jasmine got upset and we couldn’t hear her pulse on the doppler over the sound of her screaming. We had to redo it later. We also took her temperature.
The nurse was telling us some more about the dialysis training today. When Jasmine is ready, in a few months, we will go to ‘D’ side of the ward, and stay for a few days. We will be responsible for Jasmine’s food, medicine, dialysis, fixing alarms during the night, etc, but will be able to get a nurse to help us if we need to.