Thursday, July 31, 2008

We are with Maya in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit

It is 3pm and we have been with Maya now since 1pm. She is doing
great, although when we came into the room, she was just coming to,
and was really upset and had a frog voice from the breathing tube just
being removed. Once we gave her the binky, she calmed down and fell
back asleep. Her RN (they have 1-1 while they are in the ICU) Sara,
is with us until 7pm tonight. She is very nice. Maya has 4 IV sites,
two in her feet, one in her neck and an arterial line in her wrist
(this is how they are monitoring her blood pressure). She also has a
chest tube, draining blood from the chest cavity, on the left side
below the surgical incision area. She also has some oxygen blowing on
her to keep her oxygen saturation (O2 sats) up, as with anesthesia, it
can make them sleepy, and not taking in enough air. See attached
picture of Maya in her crib/bed in the ICU (the RN said she ordered a
bigger crib, but we haven't seen it yet)

2 comments:

my life: said...

So glad that all is going well!!! She looks quite content. :^)

Anonymous said...

Maya is in our prayers... Uncle Paul and Aunt Shirley