Sunday, August 26, 2012

GETTING BETTER ALL THE TIME

Keep your fingers crossed, we may be going home in a day or two. After rounds, and yes, they FINALLY rounded on Colby today, things are looking up. The packing has been out of his mouth since yesterday morning. So we have discontinued the sedation med. Also discontinued the Clindamycin since there isn't any packing. Also moved the vent settings to home settings, good also.

Today's plan is to do CoughAssist treatments at the normal home routine, 4 sets of 5 breaths, but still at the lower setting of 20/20 (normally 30/30). Still not doing IPV treatments, too much shaking around. Don't want to do anything that may lead the bleeding to start. We're being extra careful with oral suctioning. Just getting in the sides of his cheeks really, NOT to the back of his mouth. Using a BBG (that's big booger getter for all you non-respiratory folks) for his nose and that really seems to help pull out the slimy stuff at the back of his nose and hopefully throat.

So that's the report for now. Dad is on his way up & Mom will go home. Hopefully she can stay there & we'll get out of here very soon. I've already done my "let's celebrate, the word home was mentioned in rounds" dance. Colby wasn't overly impressed, probably wished he was still sedated haha. You'd think he'd be used to my craziness by now, huh?

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