Saturday, July 25, 2009

Really!?!

Here we are again! Sitting in the PICU at the Children's hospital with pneumonia! We are getting very frustrated! It seems like each time is worse than the last! Olivia came down with a cold overnight Wednesday night, which quickly developed into pneumonia by Friday afterrnoon! We took her to see her primary doctor who advised us that it would be in our best interest to take bring Olivia here. We were kind of thinking that, but we're really glad he sent us when he did. She quickly declined on the way here and got even worse after getting here. They have her on high flow, a mix of oxygen and room air forced in at a higher pressure. The pressure on that is 7 liters. Her normal oxygen is 0.3 liters. They also have her on some IV antibiotics and steroids, in addition to an albuterol nebulizer treatment. She finally seems to be sleeping, and will hopefully sleep well for a while.

We're getting very frustrated with spending so much time here. We have been trying to get a family conference, but it's been hard because they usually only do that for inpatient. So I guess that's a good thing coming out of this, now maybe we'll finally get our family conference. We just hope that will provide some answers to finally give Olivia some relief! I think that her vomiting, not eating, and respiratory issues are all related, but we need to get her doctors together to figure things out! We'll continue to keep you posted on how she's doing!

And I promise that crawling video once we're home and feeling better!

3 comments:

Laura Wolf said...

Aww, poor Olivia. It seem every time she gets a foot forward she taken two steps back. I hope that see will get to feeling better soon. I also hope you get that family conference and get some answers as to what can be done for her. I'm going to keep that little angel in my prays and you hang in there mom. Can't wait to see Olivia crawling... at HOME!!

Destini said...

Oh, hugs to you guys! I will be praying for a quick recovery for Olivia and some answers for all of you. Hope you can get some rest.

Unknown said...

Olivia is in my thoughts and prayers! I'll be keeping my fingers crossed that you get a family conference scheduled.