All Too Familiar...

Well the inevitable happened... Fiona ended up in the PICU at Children's on Wednesday.

So here's what happened: As I mentioned before we changed her feeding schedule and she was getting fed continuously throughout the night. We had been trying to get ahold on the Nurtritionist because she had spit up a couple times and we knew that she was getting too much for her little belly to handle. Well Wednesday morning at about 3am she spit up, ALOT. She ended up aspirating (breathing into her lungs) the spit up. It is one thing for babies to aspirate while they are eating, but to aspirate puke is much worse. So our nurse suctioned it all out, we changed her trach and ties, and got her all cleaned up. We dressed her and wrapped her up, but for some reason she just wouldn't warm up. Her temp was 96. So I called the dr. and he said to take her straight to the ER. I AM SORRY to anyone that reads this that works at ERHC and no offense to you, but we will never take her there again! I understand that they don't see things like this, but it was all just a mess. It took like 10 people to get an IV in her. They poked both arms, both legs, and finally put it in her head. Poor little thing, I felt so bad for her.

Anyway... When we got there her temp was 96.1 and her white blood cell count was high so they decided to life flight her to Children's. When we got here her WBC count was still high, but a little lower, but they were still worried about infection. She was started on antibiotics and had LOTS of blood work done. She also had an EKG and an echo just to make sure nothing was going on with her heart. They also did a chest x-ray to check her lungs for any sign of infection.

All of her blood cultures came back negative, her EKG and echo were normal (for her), and the chest x-ray showed a little irritation, but no infection, so all good news!

She was made NPO (no food) when we got here so she was started on IV fluids. They ended up having to stop her feeds a few times because she was spitting up and even stopped it this morning because they thought her belly looked bigger. But as of noon she was back up to full feeds and doing well.

Keep your fingers crossed that we can go home tomorrow!!!