Good news, Tiara is finally improving. Her x-ray from this morning showed significant improvement in her lungs. At 6am this morning her kidneys started working better which in turn allowed them to get fluid out of her lungs thereby resulting in the great x-ray. The doctors still aren’t sure why her kidneys stopped…
daily life with tiara
Tiara update, April 2, 2013, more problems
Today was a very eventful day for Tiara and not in a good way. She woke up at 4am and tried to lunge out of bed. Luckily the respiratory therapist and I were standing bedside at the exact moment she did this. I grabbed her hands and she started fighting so hard I had to…
Not really better but not worse…
I expected today to be fairly quiet but as always Tiara never likes to follow protocol. She woke up early and was trying to pull at everything even though she is constantly getting medication to sedate her through an IV. Anyone else would be in lala land with that much medicine in them but not…
They put her on a ventilator…
I am starting to hate my own posts because they are so depressing and I have a hard time believing this is all happening to my Tiara. Easter Sunday her oxygen levels continued to go up and down but mostly stayed low, even though she was in fairly good spirits. She was laughing…
Update on Tiara, Easter Sunday
It’s Easter Sunday and I just returned to the hospital after surprising my other girls with a early morning visit to watch them open their baskets. My mother in law came to stay with Tiara and I went home for 2 hours. It was so nice to hug my other big babies and eat breakfast…
Update on Tiara, Saturday March 30, 2013
Not much has changed since yesterday with Tiara. She had some more oxygenation issues this morning and they had to increase the settings on the bipap and decided to put in an ng tube for feeding. She had this same thing last time so it looks like she is as sick as in January. Her…
Update on Tiara, March 28, 2013 1:30 p.m.
Tiara was transferred to the ICU this morning around 6am after her oxygen repeatedly kept desatting. A ran out into the hall to get help and saw her resident charting at the computer. I asked her to hurry and help but once she got in the room she started checking the probe to see if…
We both have the flu again!
This is going to be a very quick update because I am super sick and feel miserable. Last night I felt achy all night and didn’t sleep and Tiara seemed to feel the same. I felt like I was jumping up to check on her every few minutes as a result I was a zombie…
Back in the hospital…
Unfortunately my prediction that Tiara was going to get worse came to fruition and she was admitted to Choc yesterday morning. I noticed she seemed a little worse but not as bad as in the past when I would rush her to the hospital. I kept thinking about the new development of the base of…
Things are going downhill fast!
Yesterday I decided to start a huge project and now I am shooting myself in the leg for starting such a large endeavor. I was out in the backyard attempting to make my neglected yard look decent by weeding the beds and the area between the cement. When we bought this house over 10 years…