They stopped paralyzing Elizabeth today. She is still getting meds to keep her calm/sedated so shes still getting Versed and they changed her Fentanyl to Dilaudid. Even with the medicines, she was been awake alot today and smiled at us a few times. She was kicking her legs alot, which she loves to do :) She did get one extra dose of the meds earlier in the day when she seemed to get too worked up and her saturations dropped. Since she is moving around so much being awake it is "loosening" up alot of gunk and she has had to be suctioned alot more, but as soon as they do that her saturations go back up, which is good. She is still on the ventilator but they have weaned her oxygen requirement and pressure levels down on it some. The Dr has mentioned that she may have pneuomia and that could be causing some of her issues, but they are not sure and since testing for it would involve putting a scope into her lungs they dont want to put her through that right now, but he thinks some of her chest xrays show the "possibility" of it. But the antibiotics she is on for the MRSA will also clear up pneuomia so he feels comfortable just letting the anitbiotics run their course and go from there.
When your in PICU or the hospital in general you always see the other families whose loved ones are in here and alot of times it puts things into perspective. Even though Elizabeth is having a hard time right now she still has a chance to get better. My mom was in the waiting area today and a family member of another girl started talking to her. The 11 yo girl, Elizabeth, fell out of a tree last night and was air lifted here, with head trauma. They do not think things are looking good for her. Please pray for this little girl and her family!
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