Sunday, April 12, 2009 There Has To Be Some Steps Backward

Shailee had a rough night last night and day today. She was having these "spells" and was very irritable so they had to sedate her to get her to rest. they think that she may be having siezures, so they are going to do an ECG on her tomorrow to see if that may be the case. they also had to adjust her et tube (repirator) and turn her oxygen back up to 50% because her secretions were so bad they were suctioning her every 15 minutes, so they had to give her an antidiuretic to help get rid of some of the fluids, which as of the last phone called really seemed to be helping because she hadn't been suctioned in over an hour. the thing is that they are not sure where all these secretions are coming from so they are checking into that as well. her last chest x-ray looked hazy so they are also going to be doing one of them tomorrow as well to look at it again. she is up to 43 cc's of formula every 8 hours now, and hse will also be having her cast soaked off tonight and number 3 put on tomorrow by the pediatric surgeons. So she has had a rough day but when we last talked to them she was stable and resting from all the excitement, so hopefully she will have a good night and get some sleep. I will update more tomorrow when i find out more.