Jumped the Gun

Over the weekend, Harper had very low output (less than 10mL's) and actually got down to only 1mL out on Sunday.  Based on this, the doctors decided to start feeding on Monday.  So, Harper got 5mL's of formula every 3 hours from Monday afternoon through the night.  On Tuesday morning, the output from her chest tube was over 10mL's and the doctors saw a small amount of fluid build-up on her chest x-ray... so we are back to no feeding.  The medicine was also increased, again, and the plan is to keep her without feeds until the output is near zero for multiple days in a row.  Then we will try feeding Harper again and go from there.

On another note - I completely forgot to tell the story of our adventures back at home!!
Friday night, Karen and I got home from the hospital around 1030pm.  We got settled in, poured a glass of wine and sat on the couch to relax for a little before we went to bed.  As soon as I sat down, I smelled a strong smell coming in through the front window... skunk!  Karen went to the back door and called the dogs to come in... Buckeye came in right away, but Crew would not come  in.  I went out on the deck... immediately smelled the skunk (much stronger than the front of the house), looked and called for Crew for a minute and finally spotted him off of the side of the deck.  He had is face down in a pile of black and white fur... he had killed a skunk in our back yard!
I rushed back inside, closed the door and told Karen what I had seen.  We rushed around the house getting supplies to go out and wash Crew (baking soda, vinegar, dish soap, listerine and shampoo)...
So, there we were... our nice relaxing night turned in to cleaning our skunk sprayed dog in the middle of the night.  We got most of the putrid sulfur smell off of him, but still made him sleep in the kitchen behind a gate all weekend.

Crazy...

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