Good morning,
Bree had a pretty good night last night...the nurse did get the results of her abdominal x ray, and the problem is that the ventilator is somehow pushing some of the air into her stomach area, which is then going into her intestines. So she has pockets of air in her intestines. Right now they are just keeping an eye on it, and if it persists or if it becomes a problem they will insert a second tube in her mouth, but this one will go into her stomach to allow the air to escape out of that. One of the problems with that is if she has the second tube they can't feed her the breastmilk and she will have to remain on the TPN that she is receiving now. (TPN is artificial 'food' that gets put into her IV, kind of like a type of sugar water)
We asked when the next time she would have a brain ultrasound to check on her brain bleeds. We were told that if they are going to do another one, it will happen on Monday. Also, they will give Bree three or four days on the jet ventilator before trying to switch her to the regular ventilator since when they tried yesterday to switch her she was not unable maintain her blood gases where they wanted her to keep them.
The nurse did say that she had a good night though so that is a bit of good news.
Hope this finds you all happy, healthy and in love with life!
LoveAdam, Tasha, Riley and Bree
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