+06.18.2007 < 1139 days ago
so
happy preterm labor fathers day to me
things have happened
some of them good
some of them bad
heres the breakdown…
after a week of being on the conventional ventilator…
Kraken-ridge decided on friday to transport elizabeth back to seton
(YAY!)
she did really well with the whole moving
and riding in the magic box again
aside from her edema
which is nothing new
things were positive
in the process of getting to know her again
they found not one
but count em TWO blood clots
one in her sub-clavical vein [which is where the last one was]
and one a little further up her arm
approximately about where her arm meets her under arm
so for mothers day alyssa got the first blood clot
and for fathers day
i get the sequel
which as you know with sequels
the second one is always worse than the first
wheeee!
and if that wasnt enough…
saturday night around 7pm
[24 hours almost to the minute]
she stopped breathing and had to go back on the hifi
and even after that her blood gases continued to climb
so they brought back the nitcrous
AGAIN
(this makes round 5 for both of these damned machines and our little girl)
her lungs look awful
there is almost no black,...
in case i haven’t pointed this out before
on an xray, black means oxygen
black is good
you can count ribs in black
white,...
not so much
i get the feeling she hates the hifi as much as i do
because she fights it by trying to breath over it
although when she fights it they give her narcotics
this time she got a healthy dose of phenobarbital
and then a follow up with some “muscle relaxers”
(which if you are reading between the lines
it means that they had to paralyze her to keep her from fighting the ventilator)
i wish someone would give me a ventilator to fight [with a bat]
and then give me narcotics…
its been a rough weekend
and i hate fathers day
oh
and amelias fine
she eats
she craps
whatever.
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