Saturday, April 4, 2009 My Visit To See Shailee

I went and spent a few hours with Shailee today. She is still doing good and is stable. Once again she was unable to have formula today due to her dijoxen levels being too high, but they are going to lower the amount of her heart med to correct that and maybe try tomorrow for the formula. They dropped her respirator from level 40 to level 35 and she is still breathing at 21% (room air, like us). Her blood gases were still coming back good today as well. They are suctioning secretions from her throat about every 2 hours, which they said is because she has the tubes in her throat so she is unable to clear it out on her own. She has lost a total of 8 oz. since she has been there so she is down to 5 lbs. 1 oz. Shailee stayed awake for about an hour while i was there and was being very active just moving her arms, head, and leg around (she can only move on due to the cast on her left leg but she does wiggle those toes). She is still intubated right now, and they are hoping to remove it soon and put the oxygen tube back in her nose but the heart doctor wasn't ready to pull it just yet. She is having a chest x-ray done tomorrow to make sure that there is no aspirations (or fluid in the lungs), her last chest x-ray came back fine with no signs of fluids, swelling, or infections of any kind. Shailee will also be having another ekg done tomorrow to see how her heart is progressing. Here is a new pic that i took of her today, it isn't the best but it was what i could get of her since she is in a plastic "house" right now. But she did have her eyes open in the pic which is a new one for us.