Wednesday 11 April 2012

Back to Edmonton

We got to the hospital this morning and didn't have a good night. She hadn't slept much and was getting very irritated again. They up'ed her oxygen to 3L and by 9am it was at 5L. (nasal prongs "cannula") She was still not doing well and was working extremely hard with a heart rate of 180-190's + , and fast and heavy breathing with massive in-drawing of 80-90 breaths per min, she was de-stating the whole morning.
The RT's came in and had put her back on a mask (different one the before) and raised the o2 levels to 75% (the set up is easier to see and change the settings of the level of o2) Her heart rate has come down a bit with this but not much it's around 150-160's, but her breathing still remains in the high 80's and 90's. Her o2 saturation fluctuates a lot now any where between 92%- 100% and it's now 12:00. They also put Erica's feeds back up so she is back on 18 mils/hr continuous.
The Intensivist came in around 3:00 and said that they had spoken with Dr. Rebekya in Edmonton, and he wants her in Edmonton asap. He wants to do an angio-cath (which with her pressures right now is extremely dangerous, everyone in sask had said that it any other procedures that were needed or wanted to be done would have to be done now in Edmonton as Saskatchewan didn't feel comfortable doing anything more as the risks are too great and the chances of something going very wrong have better odds then things going right.) The CT scan didn't give Dr. Rebekya enough information to make a solid decision on... Meaning there might still be the slightest bit of hope left yet to save our little angel.
So off to Edmonton we went. We kissed Erica good-bye and wished her yet another safe flight. We called our parents and told them all what was going on. We made it to the Alberta boarder around 7 pm, and called Saskatoon as we hadn't received a call yet from them notifying us that she had left and as we were leaving the transfer paper's were being written up, this was at 3:00pm. The had told us that she was to leave at 7:30, and should be in Edmonton around 9:30. So we grabbed a sub, stopped at Walmart real quick to grab some blankets as we weren't sure if we were going to be crashing in the van for the night, as we weren't able to get into the Ronald McDonald House right away, and were off again.
Erica is to go to the Children's Cardiac Ward on Level 4.

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