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She's Resting Comfortably???
Posted by Amber Kimberly on Saturday, April 25, 2009
Under: Caylee
Thurs, 4/23/2009 11:02 PM
She had a dose of Morphine at 9pm... it took about 5 min before she calmed down. She seemed uncomfortable when we got back from dinner. She was not hysterical, but i asked for her to get something before she got there. She's feeling very binkie dependant but that's ok, she can have it. She tends to kick her legs to try to move the princess bubbles out the bottom end, and she was irritating the site as she was doing that. Once she cries she irritates it further. She seems to be comfortable with the Morphine (not a big dose for her size, just takes the edge off) & Tylenol. She can have a dose of Morphine every 4 hours throughout the night if she needs it. I think she is starting to feel a bit hungry too.
GI Doc will be back in the morning to check the site & give the ok to feed. If all goes according to plan, we will be discharged on Monday. Just spending the weekend recovering. Tomorrow will be the fun day. The entire day is devoted to Caylee, so i will try to get out another update once she is sleeping tomorrow night.
So far so good, thanks for all the thoughts and prayers.
Tiffany Turbin :)
Fri 4/24/2009 9:30 PM
She's not so comfortable anymore.... The surgeon came in this afternoon during the one hour window out of the entire day that we left the hospital. He adjusted the tube placement and she just lost it! Her nurse came in after the fact, got her some Tylenol and snuggled her. She hadn't calmed down at all after 25 min, so she got her some morphine. Logic tells me... you're about to hurt the kid, give her some tylenol first and she may not even need the morphine... but hey, i'm just mom.....
She calmed after the morphine, slept for nearly 2 hours then it really started. She was trying to pass some princess bubbles and working on a poo.... This was during a feeding, so she was pushing all her milk back up the open tube. There was over 1oz more in her belly than she had been fed- lots of residual from the last feed that wasn't moving yet. (expected since she went so long without food before the procedure) She screamed herself exhausted, continued to push non-stop for nearly an hour with a constant whimper that was all she had left in her. Her heart rate was through the roof at 255, her nurse was trying to get help from the nurse practitioner, who would be in soon.... So Brian went hunting. The nurse was outside another room waiting looking pretty angry herself. Brian asked if she was coming... The nurse responded for the NP "soon"... So Brian very loudly asked who was next in charge. EEhhhh.... She was in the room within 2 min & ordered her another dose of morphine. She started calming down within 5 min... but it took nearly 15 for her to let go of the pushing (that was aggravating the site more) The doc said it feels similar to a C-Section, being that they cut through skin & muscle. Poor Boo....
She's finally sleeping now... she has 2 nurses tonight, same from last night. They got the doctor to change the order to morphine as needed, every 2 hours instead of 4. Problem is narcotics constipate too... 6 of one, half doz.....
We were expecting this to happen so it's not too surprising, just still sucks. She's getting another feed right now while she's nice & relaxed, so we'll see how she tolerates it.
Check back tomorrow!
Tiffany Turbin :)
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Tiffany just sent me (Amber) a message that Caylee has a fever of 101. They have stripped her down and waiting an hour to re take it. Her heart rate is way too high for sleeping, & she's whimpering again. Too tired to cry. There are drugs on standby, she's not going to be uncomfortable tonight! Tiffany said they believe it's that high from her getting so worked up. And 101 isn't as much of a concern in infants as it is in adults...
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She had a dose of Morphine at 9pm... it took about 5 min before she calmed down. She seemed uncomfortable when we got back from dinner. She was not hysterical, but i asked for her to get something before she got there. She's feeling very binkie dependant but that's ok, she can have it. She tends to kick her legs to try to move the princess bubbles out the bottom end, and she was irritating the site as she was doing that. Once she cries she irritates it further. She seems to be comfortable with the Morphine (not a big dose for her size, just takes the edge off) & Tylenol. She can have a dose of Morphine every 4 hours throughout the night if she needs it. I think she is starting to feel a bit hungry too.
GI Doc will be back in the morning to check the site & give the ok to feed. If all goes according to plan, we will be discharged on Monday. Just spending the weekend recovering. Tomorrow will be the fun day. The entire day is devoted to Caylee, so i will try to get out another update once she is sleeping tomorrow night.
So far so good, thanks for all the thoughts and prayers.
Tiffany Turbin :)
Fri 4/24/2009 9:30 PM
She's not so comfortable anymore.... The surgeon came in this afternoon during the one hour window out of the entire day that we left the hospital. He adjusted the tube placement and she just lost it! Her nurse came in after the fact, got her some Tylenol and snuggled her. She hadn't calmed down at all after 25 min, so she got her some morphine. Logic tells me... you're about to hurt the kid, give her some tylenol first and she may not even need the morphine... but hey, i'm just mom.....
She calmed after the morphine, slept for nearly 2 hours then it really started. She was trying to pass some princess bubbles and working on a poo.... This was during a feeding, so she was pushing all her milk back up the open tube. There was over 1oz more in her belly than she had been fed- lots of residual from the last feed that wasn't moving yet. (expected since she went so long without food before the procedure) She screamed herself exhausted, continued to push non-stop for nearly an hour with a constant whimper that was all she had left in her. Her heart rate was through the roof at 255, her nurse was trying to get help from the nurse practitioner, who would be in soon.... So Brian went hunting. The nurse was outside another room waiting looking pretty angry herself. Brian asked if she was coming... The nurse responded for the NP "soon"... So Brian very loudly asked who was next in charge. EEhhhh.... She was in the room within 2 min & ordered her another dose of morphine. She started calming down within 5 min... but it took nearly 15 for her to let go of the pushing (that was aggravating the site more) The doc said it feels similar to a C-Section, being that they cut through skin & muscle. Poor Boo....
She's finally sleeping now... she has 2 nurses tonight, same from last night. They got the doctor to change the order to morphine as needed, every 2 hours instead of 4. Problem is narcotics constipate too... 6 of one, half doz.....
We were expecting this to happen so it's not too surprising, just still sucks. She's getting another feed right now while she's nice & relaxed, so we'll see how she tolerates it.
Check back tomorrow!
Tiffany Turbin :)
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Tiffany just sent me (Amber) a message that Caylee has a fever of 101. They have stripped her down and waiting an hour to re take it. Her heart rate is way too high for sleeping, & she's whimpering again. Too tired to cry. There are drugs on standby, she's not going to be uncomfortable tonight! Tiffany said they believe it's that high from her getting so worked up. And 101 isn't as much of a concern in infants as it is in adults...
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