Lynnea was easily agitated throughout the day today, and it was very difficult to keep her calm. She had an echocardiogram this morning, that looked pretty good. There wasn't anything significant found on yesterday's CT scan. Dr. St. Louis looked at her incision site again today, and said it looks pretty good. Tomorrow he might pull her chest tube out, and possibly pull out some of her stitches. Tomorrow she will also have another brochoscopy to get a good look at her lungs to try to figure out why she continues to need such a high PEEP on her ventilator settings.
This evening she decided to give me a bit of a scare. Her temperature climbed to 104, and she was very agitated, despite the nurse giving her every form of sedation that has been ordered for her. Her heart rate was very high -- at one point during this episode it hung out in the 190's, and then her blood pressure took a drastic drop, and continued to drop until it was too low for the blood pressure cuff to read. After Lynnea managed to completely wear herself out so that she was no longer so upset, and after the doctors temporarily increased her Epinephrine, her blood pressures came back up to an acceptable level. They continue to sit at the very low end of the range that the doctors are comfortable with, but at least they are back in the range. Her temperature has come down to 99.5.
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