Friday Summary

We had a busy day today.  After spending the morning with Brida, Erin and Sam went to Rosemary's VBS presentation.  We then had lunch at home and spent time with the kids before heading back to the hospital around 4pm.  Dr. Gruber dropped by while we were there just to check on how Brida was doing.  Erin brought a couple of books to read to Brida, including "Are You my Mother?", which we thought was appropriate given her "snort" sound when she cries.

As an interesting side-note, as part of her chest drain, they now have a wet suction water seal drain connected made by Atrium Medical, a company I worked at for 3 months during a co-op stint.

Tonight will be the first night Erin and I will be sleeping at home since Sunday.  We will be giving the attending nurse a call to check in on Brida and then hope to get a good night's rest.

Health Update:
Brida is still ahead of schedule with everything.  They weaned her off of the Epinephrine today and they are gradually decreasing the ventilator frequency as Brida starts to breath on her own.  In the screen shot below, the black part of the top graph is the ventilator working and the grey is Brida trying to breath. The plan is to take her off of the ventilator tomorrow and then remove her breathing tube.  If all goes well, they will start removing the IV lines this weekend to reduce the infection risk, starting with the PICC lines.  Once the PICC lines are out, she will be able to be held again.