Well Gracie had a great weekend and by Sunday she was down to a pressure setting of 14 and a rate of 20 on her ventilator.
On Monday her blood gas results returned to the not so great; and on Tuesday her temperature was up to nearly 104. They determined that she has an infection, most likely from her ventilator and they are treating it as pnemonia. Surprisingly they did not make many changes to her ventilator settings, they left the pressure alone and came up on her rate to 30, then brought it back down once her fever broke. Wednesday she looked very swollen and was very sleepy all day. She just didn't look as good as she had been looking the last week or so.
Today we found out that she has a full-blown staph infection. They are using some pretty heavy anti-biotics to fight it. Their concern is that it not get to her heart or pacemaker. Our hope is that the medications she is on will get rid of it before the infection gets worse.
Her vent settings are back up to 40... and any hope that she would be entubated this next week are gone. They have added a couple of weeks to her timeline in order to fight this infection, and then start over with the weening of the ventilator.
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Jackie, myself and the entire MOPS group continues to pray for Grace. You are never far from our thoughts and prayers and right now it will definitely be for a quick recovery from her infection.
Please let us know if there's anything we can do to help-really and truly!!
Love,
Tiffany
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