Lynnea is still on the schedule to have an aortopexy in the morning. Dr. St. Louis is going to lift her aorta off from her left bronchus, so that her bronchus will hopefully open up, and we can then eventually get her off from the ventilator. He is also going to do a decortication of her left lung tomorrow. He is going to remove the extra fluid and inflamed tissue from around her left lung. He expects that this could take a few hours, and that there could be some bleeding involved.
Overall today Lynnea had an OK day. She had an episode of dropping her blood-oxygen saturation levels this morning into the 40's without any clear reason, but managed to recover with some extra oxygen support. Sedation was an issue this morning, and after giving her significant doses of Ativan, Dilaudid, and Precedex, the doctors decided to give her a dose of Chlorohydrate, which worked. She was on Chlorohydrate last week, and she liked it a little too much (drops her blood pressures, and tends to be overly sedated on it), which is why they had taken her off from it over the weekend. The one time dose did the trick and she had a pretty quiet day otherwise. She continued to run a low grade fever, but nothing high enough to prevent her from going to surgery in the morning (at least not at this point, technically she could still spike overnight, so surgery is not guaranteed).
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As always prayers are with you all, please give each oher a hug from us,Tina you are the greatest mom,and you have gone thru soo much, hang in there girl, you know the rest of the family aren't to bad either. You are all great and thought very highly of . Grab babies finger and tell her its from us, Bev and Joyce
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