[tri-med] Sunday in the hospital

We're still here... They have found a bug... Hannah has a pseudomonas. =
They
have changed her antibiotic again and added in hypertonic saline in an
aerosol. Evidently the hypertonic saline is saline that is a little =
stronger
than the body's natural salinity. In an aerosol, it tends to pull fluid =
from
the lungs just a little, which will form a sort of layer underneath the
secretions, so the thick stuff will "slide" out. She was raised to 3 1/2
liters of O2 over night and we still have periods where she needs to be
suctioned quite a bit even with three things that are supposed to help =
dry
out the secreations! She just bubbles yucky (a technical term) foam out =
her
nose. I don't know where in the world she is getting the stuff. And =
we're up
and down with the alarms. They are also rechecking for a UTI. She ran a
fever two days ago and again yesterday. It was up to 101.8 then. =
(Hannah's
norm is 97.5 or 6)

Her night nurse told the day nurse that Hannah didn't sleep all night. =
They
gave her benedryl about 10:45 or so and that didn't help much. Then they
gave her valium and it didn't do anything. She was awake when I got up =
to
use the bathroom at about 4:30 am but sleeping when I woke up this =
morning.
She woke up within about an hour and has been away ever since. This =
morning
her doc was in and he is wanting to check for allergies because even =
with
three things going that should decrease the secreations she is still =
running
like there is a hose attached that we can't see that is just pumping =
away!
He is also going to do another chest x-ray and blood gases in the =
morning.
They are working on her now to replace the IV as the one that was in =
started
leaking. :(=20

So far no word about when we'd get to go home. No one has even hinted.

It was my night last night and I'm going to stay again tonight so Donn =
can
take Caty to the high school tomorrow to get a locker and get her class
schedule straightened out.  Then Donn will stay tomorrow night.

I'm tired. So is he.


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