Friday

Lizzy is my companion today.

Our trach class is completed.  More and more items are getting checked off from our Discharge To-do List.  I just wish that Bella would sign off on the plan.  :)

Tuesday the vendor is coming to help us order a Kid Kart.   It is a stroller and a wheelchair combined.  There is a place for the ventilator and the oxygen tank.  Plus it will have the trunk and head support she’ll need.

She’s had a pretty good day.  No major desats or bradies.  Not too tachy.  I was feeling pretty good until the doc says that she is a critically ill child who would be in ICU if she was anywhere but here.  (He was talking to a PA, not me.)  Oh well.

Her tummy is a little distended.  We checked her residuals (what’s left in her belly) and it was way too much and looked like straight milk.  So her feedings were stopped for a while.  We re-checked and she had resumed digesting – good.  So her feeds have resumed and they will watch it closely.  Hopefully nothing.

Here’s hoping for a nice, quiet weekend!