Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Conference Scheduled!

We finally got the Family Care Conference scheduled for the morning. Olivia's Pulmonologist, Geneticist, GI, Endocrinologist, Speech Therapist, and, via phone, her Primary Doctor will all be at the meeting. We are hoping that it will be a good brainstorming session and we will hopefully get a good plan to work with. There have been many ideas thrown around over the last couple of days, so hopefully at the meeting we can figure out which may be the best for Olivia.

Today was a good day for Olivia. She was put on just oxygen instead of high flow. She started the day at 2 liters and is now down to 0.5 liters. She was much more herself today. The nurse brought in a mat for her to play on the floor. She really loved that, except when we wouldn't let her crawl off of it onto the dirty floor. She was also transfered from PICU service to Pulmonary service today. We'll stay in the same room, but her care will now be managed by the pulmonary team rather than the PICU team. In addition to that, the doctor came in tonight and said that Olivia doesn't have to be on isolation anymore. That means that when the doctors and nurses come in they won't have to wear gowns and masks. Those really scare Olivia so hopefully she'll be even happier tomorrow when she can see people's faces!

Still no idea when we'll be going home, but at least we are on the right track now!

4 comments:

Caden and Mommy said...

Sounds like all great news! Can't wait to hear the outcome from the conference!

Kim said...

Great news. Looking forward to reading about what happens at the conference!

Laura Wolf said...

Glad to hear things are getting better. Good job Olivia! Hope some good news comes from the doctors.

Greene Family said...

I'm so happy that Olivia is continuing to get better and that you had the family conference this morning - Yay! I hope the doctors were able to form a good plan for Olivia!