Moving along

     Brenya is back on her old ventilator.  They had to switch her back because she wasn't doing as well on the new one.  Neither ventilator is better than the other, they just to the job a little differently.  It is not a bad thing she switched back.  She has been showing signs of infection since yesterday and they found that she has a yeast infection in her bladder.  There is no sign of infection in her blood, which is very good and they are testing other areas of her body as well.  So far, it's just in her bladder.  They wanted to do a lumbar puncture today to see if there is an infection in her brain, but when they put her on her side she desated.  This just means being on her side stressed her out a little and they decided not to do it.  They are going to try again tomorrow.  She is on a few different antibiotics to treat the yeast infection and any other infection they may not have detected yet.
      Brenya's lungs are doing well.  They have improved slightly since yesterday so we are making baby steps there.  There is still a lot of old blood from when she had the hemorrhage but it is slowly clearing out.  Her left lung is only about a rib or two smaller than her right, which is very good.  Once they have healed all up, she should be breathing fine.  Yesterday, she was getting 75% of her oxygen from the ventilator and today they were able to go down to 72% .  It's a small improvement, but improvement just the same.  She is doing very well off ECMO and we are happy to see her oxygenating on her own.

I just wanted to put this up because I liked how the nurses wrote her name.  It's nice that they care enough to add that personal touch. 

No more ECMO tubes! She finally gets to give the right side of her head a rest and lay more to the left. And we can stand on both sides of her bed because there isn't so much stuff in the way.  They were also able to give her her first bath.  She is all clean now but her cute little bow is gone.

  

She sucks on her ET tube a lot.  This is how we know she is calm and comfortable. It's really cute when she does it and it's good because she is getting positive oral stimulation.  Since they have been able to go down on her sedation (they have cut it in half since she went off ECMO), she moves a little more and she has started sucking on her hand too.