** THE WEBSITE WILL BE DOWN TONIGHT FOR EXTENDED EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE FROM ABOUT THU 10PM EST UNTIL FRI 8AM EST **

• NO Extubation today 🙁
  • She is not ready. She will probably not be ready until after the weekend. Very often when being mechanically ventilated and laying around in bed you can accumulate more fluid that you put out. She has a bit of fluid overload and one of the most affected places is the lungs. They are giving her diuretics to assist in peeing it all out but it takes time.
  • Clinically she is showing signs of someone who still needs ventilator assistance (increased pressure & oxygen levels).
  • If she were only against one airway issue it might be advisable to attempt. She has both upper-airway issues that should/might be better and then is still dealing with pulmonary emboli in both lungs. The emboli alone would increase someones need for oxygen, the narrowing of the airways makes that harder to do.
  • We all agree that giving her the optimum circumstances is what we all want for her to be able to be successfully removed from the ventilator. Failure is not an option. We are not there yet. Time and patience will help her heal the best.
• Mom’s getting a break this weekend. Dad will be staying with Faith on both Friday & Saturday night. Mom is beyond tired and needs a bit of time away from the insanity of an ICU.
• Not much else happening. I’m going to try to get a copy of her hematology report by the end of the weekend so we know if the blood clots were a fluke or perhaps there for some time and linked to genetics.