We almost lost my 8 month old Niece last Tuesday. Think she is going to be fine now. Signs are looking very good. -- (edited)
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Bacon (aka redmond)
Mar 19 '18, 16:23
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They live down in Corvallis where Mop lives. Last Saturday she got sick and had raspy cough. They went to Urgent care. Got sent home with some meds. Sunday Night her breathing became hurried so they went to ER. She is in Corvallis hospital through Tuesday Morning.
Monday night her oxygen level dips and they gave her firm pats on the back to break up mucus in the lungs. Works well. Tuesday morning it's not working, nothing is working. Oxygen level dips into the 70s. So they call up to Portland, Randal Children's hospital. They put two doctors on an Ambulance headed down to get her. About an hour out of Corvallis, the doctor there tells them "You need to hurry" so they go lights and sirens the rest of the way.
The doctors from Randal spend 2 hours trying to stabilize her for the ambulance ride to Portland. Put her on a ventilator because trying to intubate her in a moving ambulance is more dangerous.
They got her up to Randal about 5pm Tuesday Night. From there it's been slow but constant progress. Just very slow, but she was resting and stable Tuesday Night. They had her sedated heavily and the ventilator was doing all the work for her.
I saw her today. They had a physical therapist there when I was there (A hotty physical therapist, but this isn't about me) so they are trying to get her legs and arm muscles stretched out.
So the diagnosis was RSV which is something every kid gets by the age of two years old. So, 2 out of 100 kids ends up in the hospital and she is one of those couple. Her lungs just filled up with crud and she couldn't cough it all out. She had to breath harder to get oxygen and her tiny body just tired out.
So from here. I was there for rounds on Friday and today. They are shooting for Wednesday to get the air tube out. They backed off the air pressure yesterday and she lasted about 4 hours and tired out. That's normal. They slowly have to get her lungs strong enough to take over permanently. So they were going to do the same today and see how long she made it. The same for tomorrow.
Then after they can get the tube out, they have to work on getting her body back in shape to go home. This also involved removing her off the morphine sedative they have had her on for a week, and switching her to Methadone because her body will be addicted. They will slowly ween her off the Methadone. So we are looking at about another 8-9 days in the ICU, until she can go home.
What a week.
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