Sunday, April 11, 2010

Sunday, April 11, 2010 6:59 PM, EDT

Still off Nitric today! And continuing to wean the rate/pressures on the ventilator. They stopped her sedation medication Versead and the pain medication Fentanyl. Because these drugs are highly addictive she has been going through withdrawls today, they are weaning her off of them by using Morphine and Ativan which they are giving her now through the feeding tube in her nose. The "plan" is to stop feeding her in the morning and start giving her IV fluids. Then just give her a little bit of pressure on the ventilator but let her breath totally on her own and if that goes well they should be able to take the her off the ventilator. But that all depends on wheter or not they decide she needs to do the Cath Lab on her heart, if they decide to do the Cath then she will stay on the ventilator until that test is done. So its still kinda up in the air until tomorrow morning. I will update as soon as we know something tomorrow.
   We could definately see some of the withdrawl symptoms today but they gave her more medicine to help keep her comfortable, even though she was having a rough time she still managed to smile for us a couple of times! We can't wait to be able to hold her again.

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