It has been crucial that we be here with Caroline around the clock. It is a full time job getting her better. She keeps doing everything we ask of her no matter how scared she is or tired. Just an hour ago her numbers started dipping and she was really laboring to breathe and so the respiration specialist was called and we were all working away getting her to cough, tapping on her, and I was going back into panic mode. It was back down to 87 percent oxygen saturation after seeing close to 100 most of the day. We worked but didn't have any luck.
Then the specialist left.
Brent and I started really listening to her and realized she wasn't hardly breathing in the oxygen in her nose at all but rapid short breathing through her mouth.
We called him back in and then now he also noticed. So we had to do some very uncomfortable nasal clearing. The only thing that got her through is for me to tell her all the people that were praying for her and that she had to try hard.
Right then for the first time she said, "Mom, I want to go home" Then I leaned and kissed her on the forward and when I moved away, she grabbed my cheeks and said, "Don't stop kissing me" She held the side of my face and just kept rubbing it. This is the first time she has wanted my kisses. I keep pushing them on her and get rebuffed. I was grateful that she was savoring my kiss on her forhead, whatever the reason.
It was horrible and totally scary for her to have a tube go through her nose and down her throat two times but it was over quick and within 10 seconds her oxygen saturation shot right back up. It has stayed close to 100 since then.
I don't know why he didn't check to make sure that her nasal passages were clear in the first place, but the point is a parent is the most valuable asset in this hospital room.
She is enjoying her balloons right now. Thanks Ciana and Dave. She noticed some balloons go by yesterday and immediately questioned the nurse why there were balloons out there. I made up my mind to go get her some next time I went out. And then she had a suprise just now and a teddy bear and balloons from her cousins all the way in California. She is really puzzled how they got here from California.
No one else needs to send a thing. She has got her hands full.
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We are praying for her!
We are praying for little Caroline. We figure if all the aunties and uncles and cousins are praying she cannot do anything else but recover. She is one of my favorite even though I mostly know her through the blog.
We are praying for little Caroline. We figure if all the aunties and uncles and cousins are praying she cannot do anything else but recover. She is one of my favorite even though I mostly know her through the blog.
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