Addy Update! 01/29/08

Good news!! I just got back from seeing her and and she is doing great!! I happened to look at her vent monitor and noticed the her BPM(breaths per minute) was down to 17 from 22. That is so great!! Once she get down to like 5-10 she can come off of the vent!! Which means I can hold her!! I talked to the dr. tonight and he said thay he thinks she may have something called Bronchomalasia (sp). This is when the bronchial tube that you breathe with is very weak and the cartlage rings that are supposed to expand when you breathe actually collapse which is why she is requiring so much pressure in her lungs to keep them open. This makes me feel alot better knowing what is actually going on. I am hoping that this means she won't get a trach cause he said she would probably end up coming home on the CPAP. She also weighed 3 pounds 6 ounces yesterday and 3 pounds 10 ounces today!! I don't know how accurate that actually is but she is gaining weight!!! She looked so good today and they changed her bedding so I got to see her outside of her blankets!! They always have her wrapped up cause she is very active and trys to pull at her tube. Well I just wanted to let you know what was going on with her and that today is a good day finally!!!

Update!!

The doctor found out that Addy's infection is pneumonia. He said that they were going to put her on a third antibiotic and something to counteract the yeast. He said that within the next couple of days when her lungs get a little better they are going to take her off of the ventilator. Hopefully Wendall gets to hold her before he goes back home!!!

Update on Addy

As far as they can tell from the EKG there is nothing wrong with her heart. They said that the irregular heartbeat is caused from her being sick. We do the same thing when we're sick too.

Her belly is now looking much better and is not nearly as big as it was. They ruled out the NEC which is a bowl infection that can make her intestines die off. They found that her tummy was full of air from the CPAP mask that she was on.

She is being watched very closely though with the infection and they are trying to figure out if it is viral or not since influenza and RSV is going around right now. They are going to do an ecocardiogram on her heart today just to be safe and if the infection gets worse they are gonna isolate her from the other babies and put her in her own room.

She is still on the ventilator and will stay that way until her infection goes away and her breathing gets better(she stops having so many apnea episodes).

Addy Isn’t Doing Too Great

I got a call today from the NICU telling me that Addy wasn't doing too great... She had a bronchial spasm which wasn't too bad but then she kept having them and they eventually had to bag her cause she couldn't breath. So now she is back on the vent.

She also had a large girth for her stomach so they took her off of her feedings and put her back on IV fluids!! I'm so terrified she's gonna starve!!!

They also found that she has an irregular heartbeat and that she may have an infection which may be the reason she is having trouble breathing.

So hopefully once the infection passes she will come off the vent and go back on her feedings.

As for the irregular heartbeat I will be asking the doctor or nurse when I get there what that may be a sign of.

I just hope she gets better soon. It scares me so bad to see her struggling to live!