Spring Party

Today Ashlyn enjoyed making a t-shirt at the Spring Party in the family lounge at the hospital. Last year she made an awesome hat, so we decided that she should make an awesome t-shirt this year. It's a big t-shirt, so she'll just wear it as pajamas for now. She seemed to really enjoy getting to make it, and she also enjoyed decorating her own cupcake as well.

Lynnea also had a good day today. Her PEEP was weaned to 6, and she spent 5 hours today on a "pressure support trial" which means that the rate on the ventilator was completely turned off, leaving Lynnea with the responsibility of initiating all of her own breaths rather than having the ventilator provide some of them for her. She did really well with this. Tomorrow they will turn her PEEP down to 5, and hopefully we will attempt to extubate her on Wednesday. She was in a good mood all day today, and seems to be tolerating the weaning of her sedation just fine so far. She also appears to be tolerating the increase in her feeds (she's up to 18 mL/hr) better than she has in the past several weeks, which is encouraging.