November 2, 2009 Lily's oxygen level was around 93 and her CO2 was 48 at 12:07 AM. Getting more normal levels now that she is on the oscilating ventilator.
They were going to check Lily's CO2 around 9:00 AM but it was stressing her out too much when they changed the tape so they waited.
A new day dawns and two lovely ladies still in the hospital. Jamie had an x-ray of her lungs done around 9:15 AM. We got a message from John around 9:53 AM that Lily's CO2 was 30 so they may be able to wean her off the special machine and onto the regular one today. Her color is getting to be a more normal shade as well which is good.
We had some humor today. John said that Lily was giving him the Rock hand sign and then the Spock hand sign.
At 11:04 AM Jamie had her breathing excercise and got up to the 2000 mark The therapist said she is doing real good. Her lungs sounds better. Just a little mucous. Jamie is coughing good which helps bring up the mucous.
AT 1:11 PM the ultrasound showed a heart issue that they should be able to take care of with medicine over a 36 hour period. As long as her kidneys can handle the medicine. She also has some minor blood in the head that they will monitor.
John left Josh at the hospital to spend time with Lily while he went to get some food.
Gosh what a day of updates! And what a long day it seems to have been. Lily is one tough cookie. Grandpa was very impressed!
At 2:54 PM Lily's xry was a little better than the morning. They had a little trouble putting an IV in but that's not surprising because her little veins are sooooo small. Poor little baby.
At 3:20 PM Jame had another breathing treatment. Her temperature was normal but her blood pressure was still up. It was 145/95.
I know Jamie wanted to leave as soon as she could to go over to see Lily but I was so worried that they would let her out earlier than was good for her. They hadn't even really had her walking the halls to make sure she was okay from the surgery before they were ready to send her out the door. But she turned out okay. Just me being the usual worry-wart.
Around 4:30 PM we got a message from John that they had started weaning her off the oscillating ventillator. Lily was still under the lights for the jaundice and had her ski goggles on. She looked very fashionable.
At 9:00 Pm the doctor came in to say that if Lily continues doing so good they will try to put her on a conventional ventillator! Her blood gasses were so good that they weren't even scheduling special tests for them but just going with what the monitor says.
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