Another Day in the ICU

Lynnea still struggles with breathing; today Dr. St. Louis used a syringe to pull out fluid that was gathering around Lynnea's lungs. He decided not to put her chest tube back in at this time, which was a good sign, but her chest x-rays continue to show problematic spots on her lungs, so they've gone back to "gently" thumping on her chest, and suctioning her frequently. She continued to run a low fever again today, and she struggles to keep her blood-oxygen saturations in the range that the doctors want them (this ties in with the problems with her lungs -- it's hard to keep saturations up if you can't breathe effectively). Maybe tomorrow things will start to get better.