Slapping the lungs for being bad
Today was not the best of days. Remember back when we weren't on the vent and everything was good. Yeah, that was nice.
Now we are on the vent, and needing more of the vent than before last week. We are also experiencing low blood pressure again. But with all that, our feeds went up another 1 cc to 4 cc's an hour. So she digests wonderfully.
She again has the tube in her mouth so that mystery item disappears for her again. She moves too much. She does not sleep enough. She appears to have lost some alveoli and now needs WAY too much oxygen. The Vapotherm that we talked about did not arrive fast enough and she regressed on the CPAP. She did not sleep yesterday and worked VERY VERY hard to breathe by 9:00 AM this morning. She is tired but not too tired to be sleeping, still moving and kicking.
They have started albuterol and CPT(Chest physiotherapy)(the slapping of the back to loosen gunk from the lungs to allow the repopening of her collapsed alveoli). They are doing this every 4 hours in hopes to bring her back to at LEAST where she was on the vent when we went off the ventilator. We all need to hope that she does this as QUICKLY as possible. The oxygen level is way too high, to the point of 2 weeks ago where we went to oscillator.
Man, what a day. But the kind of "what a day" that was not like yesterday. Know what I mean.
Now we are on the vent, and needing more of the vent than before last week. We are also experiencing low blood pressure again. But with all that, our feeds went up another 1 cc to 4 cc's an hour. So she digests wonderfully.
She again has the tube in her mouth so that mystery item disappears for her again. She moves too much. She does not sleep enough. She appears to have lost some alveoli and now needs WAY too much oxygen. The Vapotherm that we talked about did not arrive fast enough and she regressed on the CPAP. She did not sleep yesterday and worked VERY VERY hard to breathe by 9:00 AM this morning. She is tired but not too tired to be sleeping, still moving and kicking.
They have started albuterol and CPT(Chest physiotherapy)(the slapping of the back to loosen gunk from the lungs to allow the repopening of her collapsed alveoli). They are doing this every 4 hours in hopes to bring her back to at LEAST where she was on the vent when we went off the ventilator. We all need to hope that she does this as QUICKLY as possible. The oxygen level is way too high, to the point of 2 weeks ago where we went to oscillator.
Man, what a day. But the kind of "what a day" that was not like yesterday. Know what I mean.
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