Week 7

2/16/13 at 1300 hrs

So I spent the last 16 hours give or take off and on trying to condense Katelyn's blog. I have the last month and a few days summarized from over 26,000 words to fewer than 10,000. I also reversed the way it read so it is now chronological from birth so it is easier to follow if you are new to the site. The bad news is that I cannot get it to upload and I already removed the old posts. I will find a solution eventually, but wanted to update on our little girl. Katelyn had a little issue this morning at 0930 hrs when she extubated herself and coded. The team rushed in and reintubated her with great precision. She is still uncomfortable but her stats are back up. The team was surprised how calm I was. I had to inform them this was not my first rodeo. Her broviac line also plugged early this morning from all the blood cells they gave yesterday. normally they can clear the line with a clot busting medicine, but it has not been successful yet. The broviac is allowing fluids and medicine in but will not allow them to draw labs and run tests. they normally can handle that for about 24 hrs before they start to worry about Katelyn's fluid balance. They are consulting with surgery and we will have to see. It is snowing outside again and windy so it should be a fun trip home for my brother and his family.