Sunday, April 01, 2012

Calm Sunday

Today went o.k.  Scott and Shelby let me stay at Kohl's House and slowly get ready this morning.  I took full advantage of it knowing I would be flying "solo" here for several days.  It was a bit of a mystery getting Shelby's O2 levels in the 92%+ range.  Turns out on the 100% O2 (just right from the wall) she satted great at 4L...BUT you can only hook up a bubbler to that for humidity...and its not great humidity.  She really needs the heated humidity to help her nose not get so dry.  Everytime respiratory would switch her over to the high-flow system she would sat low.  This was the kind of system we had at home.  It took lots of tweaking, but we found out that at 60% O2 at 6L she would stay in the 92%+ range.  That's almost twice as much O2 she was on at home :-O  Still a bit questionable if she should be on the floor or the unit (PICU), but for now we're staying in good ole' room 609.  Overnight respiratory wants to try to wean down her percentage of O2 a bit.  They just made the first switch to 55% and as I type she is satting at 86%.  The nurse came in.  We shall see...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm kind of glad Shelby is inpatient, although it must be so hard on you to be seperated from the rest of your family.
Hope Shelby enjoys the hospital 'extras' she liked so much the last time around. And of course hope even much more that your living donor candidat is a perfect match (or a cadaveric liver coming in right now).
Sven (from LF)

Lisa said...

AGree with sven.. so glad she is there, they can see her, and she can be ready for when that call comes. praying!!