I know it's small, but here's another picture of our sweet girl. :) If you look really closely (or click on the picture and make it larger), you can see she's wearing her pink pearls today with a pink bow in her hair. Cuteness!
Oh, if you look really closely, you can see Rebekah's "Jaxon's blankie" underneath Rebekah. We love the blanket that Jaxon's mom, Lacey, made for Rebekah. Congratulations, Lacey, on the homecoming of sweet little Arina!
Pretty in Pink!
Rebekah sailed through her CT scan this morning. Actually, she had no clue where she was or that anything was happening! You have no idea the production that it was to get Rebekah moved! Literally, it took us 30 minutes to get Rebekah ready for transport, transported, and settled for the CT scan. The scan itself was about 10 seconds. Literally. There were two doctors, two nurses, a nurse's assistant and a respiratory therapist who had to go with us. We were moving Rebekah in her crib, two IV poles with 2 brains each (that's the system that runs the IV pumps) and each brain has 4 pumps on it. Then we had 2 monitors to keep track of all her numbers, plus the oxygen and the 2 emergency airway bags in case she stopped breathing. Oh, and the whole time we were gone, the respiratory therapist was bagging Rebekah because the vent isn't portable. We barely managed to fit all of us in the elevator, and we took the largest elevator in the hospital. I took some pictures of the procession and will try to upload them when I get home. It was a sight to see!
Anyway, the end result of all that effort is that Rebekah's conduit is fine. There is no narrowing anywhere in the conduit that could be resulting in higher pressures. We were thrilled to hear that!! Dr. Bradley came by (very) early this morning and messed around with some of the probes monitoring Rebekah's pressures. Right now, the pressures are measuring much lower than they were yesterday, so we are waiting for an echo to accurately read the pressures and let us know if they are truly that low. It would be great if they were!
Rebekah's morphine drip was turned off about an hour ago, so she will be gradually waking up over the next few hours. The plan is to extubate sometime this afternoon. We're very hopeful that Rebekah will do well off the vent and will be able to keep her oxygen levels up where they need to be. That will certainly be a good test of how the pressures are going to do in her heart when she is having to do more work on her own.
That's all the news for now. Please continue to keep Rebekah in your prayers!
Nancy
3 comments:
Thanks so much for the updates...keep them coming when you can. Your little girl is precious. Really...she is. [user winkin'] Hope today goes as smooth as possible as little Rebekah starts to wake up. Still sending lots and lots of prayers your way!
*God is Good*
Oh I'm so glad you have her blankie! And I'm so glad that she is doing good. Don't you love getting an intubated child to the CT scanner for a 10 minute scan! Keeping fingers crossed for extubation today!
The pink pearls and ribbon are so sweet; We are so happy that Rebekah is slowly making positive progress; We pray that all will go well when they extubate. That leaves a very traumatic memory for me; when they extubated Faith; she still could not breathe on her own; we almost lost her a couple times because she was awake enough to pull at her tubes;
We will pray that God will watch over Rebekah and give her the strenght to breathe on her own -
praying for you all.Love Aunt Laneva
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