Monday, January 11, 2010 10:29 AM, EST

Things are not improving. Ally still has her breathing tube. We are now 4 days out from surgery. Our original estimate was that we would be back at the other hospital by now. The problem is Ally's kidneys. They are not getting all the excess fluid off her body. She is very puffy right now. Her kidneys are also working very hard right now, so it would be tricky to give her a medicine to make her pee off the fluid, because that might make her already fragile kidneys even more fragile, which would mean we might as well move to NYC because her hospital stay would be significantly longer. Complications are stupid and I hate them. To add to all this she is getting used to her sedation meds, so she was "up" pretty much all night, she is in restraints so she doesn't pull anything out too soon. Whenever we touch her she wakes up and is obviously uncomfortable, so we can't even really hold her hand right now. We are frustrated with the whole situation, and I can only imagine how she is feeling.

Note: The other two kiddos in Ally's room are super cute babies, it is fun to watch them.