Friday, December 16, 2011

Day 18-19

Today was a great day! She was very comfortable today. Each time I would talk to her she would smile. She was also much more awake today. She did join the 3 pound club! I can totally see it too her little cheeks have started to fill out, and her skin doesn't quite hang off of her. She was just doing great!

Today did not go over very smoothly. She got an x-ray early in the morning, and that moved her breathing tube down too far, by doing so it collapsed her left lung again! So they had to up all of her vent settings again! She has to start all over. Her blood gases were all over the place like really high, they couldn't get them back to normal range. They poked her so many times. They started a vibration therapy to loosen any mucus that would be stuck in her lungs, they are also giving her treatments every 6 hours.
By the early afternoon things settled down a little bit. Until the machine STOPPED working, yes it stopped, my nurse was very quick and bagged Halle before her stats even dropped. Halle loved being bagged, (I really think she was sick of the loud noise and the vibrations.) while the RT's were trying to figure out why it broke and getting the new one to work, Halle was wide awake staring at everyone like you are all morons! It took them 45 min to figure it all out. We waited for about a half in hour did another blood gas and x-ray. The blood has was still really high, and then the x-ray showed they had over expanded her lung. So then they decided to switch ventilators to the one she was on before surgery. Well we got her switched and she loves it! She was on 40-58% oxygen now she's down to 30%. She just looks so much more comfortable now. I really hope this is what she needs to get off all of these machines.

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