Fiona had her surgery at about 9:30 this morning. Everything went well and she is doing good! She is still a little sleepy from the anesthesia. They are giving her Fentanil for the pain, but she should only need it for a couple of days. The trach tube is a little smaller than the other tube she had in so there is quite a big leak, which means there is still air passing her vocal cords so we can hear her breathing and will be able to hear her cry! Not that we want her to cry but I will be nice to hear it! It takes about 5 days for the track to get established and like I said she won't be taken out of bed for those 5 days. Then probably on Wed. they will come change it. It has to be changed every so often (not sure how often though). Then probably Friday we will start to learn how to take care of it. We have to learn how to clean it, change it, and suction it. And what to do in an emergency if there happened to be one. There is a respiratory therapist whose job it is to teach families this stuff! Hopefully it won't be too hard to learn!
Now she can work on her eating! They are going to start her back on 2 cc/hr tonight at 6 and then if she does good with that they will put her back at 4 cc/hr in the morning. Then Sunday they will go back to increasing it every day if she is doing good. I'm not quite sure when they will be able to try bottle feeding. Hopefully it is soon though!
I asked the other day if we will be able to put her in a swing and they are not sure about it. They said that from the trach standpoint she would be fine in a swing, but they are not sure about her belly and if she will tolerate it. But I think they will probably let us at least try it when she is healed from surgery.
I'm so glad everything went so well! Congratulations on being one step closer to going home!
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