We spent all day yesterday waiting for a room to open at Vanderbilt and last night around 630 we got the word that a room had opened. Around 830 Vanderbilt's Lifeflight arrived and a swarm of people were getting her ready to transport, including her flight Dr, nurse, and resp therapist. Thankfully I was able to fly with her and Matt had enough time to drive to Nashville before we arrived. Elizabeth rode in an ambulance from Erlanger to Chattanooga Airport and then we got on a small plane flew to Nashville airport and took another ambulance ride to Vanderbilt. She got into her PICU room around 1030. She did really well on the plane ride, she slept the whole way :)Once we got here they got her settled and the PICU Dr's came by to check on her and get her history. It was a LONG night since we got her so late, they still had to draw blood and check her vitals every 2 hours and monitor her oxygen and nitric levels. Once of us is able to stay in the room with her, and we were also assigned a sleep room on the same floor and Matt went there to sleep for the night.
TODAY~ So far the plan is to wean her nitric by 1 every hour until we get to 10. She started at 20 ppm and we are already down to 17. They think it would be less risky to do the cath if she can come off the nitric before hand. They have also increased her Sildenafil (viagra) medication for her pulmonary hypertension to see if that helps any. We are waiting for Cardiology and Pulmonology to come by today.
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