Yesterday and today have been thankfully uneventful. With the doctors cutting back on Adela’s heavy pain medicines and anti-anxiety medicines, she is waking up more and, when awake, is more alert. Her voice is still very raspy and she isn’t talking much (understandable since between the combination of her vocal cords needing to recover from
We have just moved up to Adela’s new room. While the PICU doctors cleared us to move this morning, we had to wait for a bed to become available upstairs. We’re now on the 5th floor in the CICCU (pronounced as “kick you”)…the Children’s Intermediate Cardiac Care Unit. The room is much larger than the
A lot happening today… Adela did well with the increased formula rates overnight, so the doctors and we are in agreement that she’s ready to move out of the PICU and into a regular room. We’re quite excited since this is a big step toward going home. We know we’ll still be here for a
Adela seems to be resting now…she drifted off to the sounds of the seashore from the white noise machine here in our room. The nurse just came in to give her a dose of Ativan (which relaxes her), Lasix (the diuretic), and a few antibiotics in addition to a diaper change. When the nurses took
Adela is doing well according to the doctors. However as they are trying to wean her off her drugs she is having some withdrawal that they are managing. She gets restless and confused. Hopefully the worst will pass in the next day or so as she adjust to not being on the fentanyl and just
This morning, the nurses removed Adela’s arterial line in her femoral artery. That was the line that was used primarily to monitor her blood pressure continuously and to draw blood for her “arterial blood gas” tests (which, among other things, tell how well her lungs are doing). This afternoon, her Foley catheter was removed. So,
Adela is continuing to do well on the decreased ventilator settings and they are considering extabating sometime tomorrow. She is getting plenty of rest and seems relatively comfortable. All her blood numbers are looking good except for one enzyme that is related to bile production / gallbladder. They were able to get some images from
As this is my first post to Adela’s blog, I’d like to say hello to everyone who reads this and to thank all our friends and family for their continued support, prayers, and well-wishes. Also, I have to extend a special “thank you” to Gary Rudd and everyone at the South East Durham Rudino’s. Before