[tri-med] Re: Sunday in the hospital

Keeping Hannah in my thoughts. Hospitals are the pits to spend time 
long term aren't they.

At 02:42 AM 30/07/2007, you 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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Jocelyn, Wife to Frank, Mother to Ian, Gillian & Susan. Maker of 
quilts, singer of songs,
Nanna to Carly 20, Mathew 18, Ashleigh 17, Alex 15, and Tess 10 years 
old with T18.
also step Nanna to Carrie age 19. & Great Grandmother to Eli, Jonas & Escha.
Living in NSW, Australia 

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