October 7, 2008

Good morning all!

My oh my, do we have a little fighter on our hands! Yesterday, even with being on a constant morphine drip, Miss Bree was fighting her oscillating ventilator to the point that all her struggling was wasting her energy and making her blood gases worse. Since she was oxygenating well, they took her off her inhaled medicine and off the oscillating ventilator. They have her back on the regular (or as hospital staff call it, conventional) ventilator!

As of this morning, she is doing well. They have weaned her from 100% oxygen to 30%. The nurse did remark that she hovers anywhere between 60% and 90% for her oxygen saturation's right now, but the instability is to be expected because she is being weaned off of the high oxygen. So they may have to bump it up a little bit to stabilize her Sat's.

As a preventative measure she received the second of her three course round of antibiotics. She gets a round every 48 hours I believe, so it will be a bit before she gets the last dose. Bree had an echo cardiogram yesterday to see if she had pulmonary hypertension, which she did not. She also had a head ultrasound yesterday to check on her brain bleeds and the unofficial report is that they are still at stage three. This is a blessing because with all of the recent excitement, it would not have been surprising if the stress of everything had exacerbated the bleeds.

Adam and I are going to pick up her birth certificate and social security card today, so she will be an official member of the United States of America! Riley says "Quack, Quack, Quack!" to everyone! (It sounds like "Kak! Kak! Kak!")

Hope this finds everyone happy, healthy and in love with life!