Well, Chrissy had a rough day yesterday. Last night she got a mucous plug and I had a whole room full of nurses and residents in here trying to clear her airway. Not a pretty sight and scared the heck out of me! She is okay though. Her fever has spiked a couple more times, but comes right down with tylenol. All the tests have come back negative, but she is on antibiotics anyway.
They have discontinued her phentenol and she is just getting versed as needed now. So she is awake quite a lot more and is learning to manage her secretions. Her Robinul was stopped after the mucous plug incident yesterday as they FINALLY agreed with me that it was making her secretions too thick!!
Today has been better. She is too funny though about her saliva. I guess she has forgotten how to manage all that spit, so she is "chewing" like she has food in her mouth and then she will just spit it all out every few minutes! She is soaking her bibs, but hey, it's better than a mucous plug!!
Tomorrow is the big day. She gets her sutures out and a new trach put in, and comes off the vent. If she does well, we get to move to a regular room in PCU. Then the trach team comes and we start learning how to take care of the princess with a trach!! After seeing what a mucous plug can do, I am a little nervous, I must admit. But it will be okay - this too shall pass...
Stephen went to the doctor yesterday and he has strep again. Little man is on Zithromax. He is already perking up today.
Again, thanks for any and all prayers you can shoot our way!! We appreciate them so much!
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