Day 18

Brian and I finally called it a night, or morning however you look at a little before 5. Her next gas wasn't until 6 am so we decided that we had better get some sleep. Elli has been looking better this morning and into the afternoon. Her blood gases continue to be more stable, CO2 levels in the 40's and O2 levels in the 60's. They defiantly could be better but as long as they don't start going down, the doctors are willing to accept these numbers. Her saturations have dropped a little bit, they were in the upper 80's and now are sitting around 81-82%. The doctors did increase her Epinephrine just slightly to try and keep her saturations up. Also on her morning CBC her C reactive protein (indicator of infection) was up to 12 where it had been 8, so they once again switched around her antibiotics. They stopped the Flagyl and started Diflucan. The nurse Phylis has been giving Elli her PRN Fentanyl and Versed about as often as she can to try and keep Elli calm so we wont fall into the afternoon funk that has been the trend for the last few days. Not much else going on, getting a chest x-ray and keeping quiet. Much calmer than yesterday, but we'll see how the rest of the night pans out.