[tri-med] Re: Sunday in the hospital

Thinking of you guys and praying for Hannah.

Debbie, mom to Claire (T18)

On 7/29/07, Janet King <jlvking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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