Sedation Still an Issue

Lynnea's biggest problem today was still a lack in keeping her sedated. It was very difficult to get the doctors to understand that they needed to increase sedation rather than trying to wean her off from any of it at this point. Other than that, she had a pretty good day. Her white blood cell count was down a little bit, and her fever only spiked to 101.7, so perhaps the antibiotics are working. They managed to wean her ventilator rate from 26 down to 16 over the course of the day, and she still seems to be doing OK with it. She is still on 45% oxygen. They still hope to extubate possibly Sunday or Monday. Dr. St. Louis took a look at her incision site today and said that it looked pretty good. He was afraid that it might look infected, but so far it seems OK. He said he might actually start pulling a few of the stitches out over the weekend. Her feedings were increased from 2 mL's per hour up to 5mL's per hour, which is still a very small amount, but at least she's tolerating it, which means they will probably increase more tomorrow.