Hospital Stay #3 - Day #2 ; Heading in the Right Direction

Its a hard thing to give updates when things were headed in the wrong direction. Fortunately that's not my assignment today. As of this morning Lyla was on a ventilator having bronchial spasms, and has a central line iv for most of the medications she's getting.

In the afternoon her ventilator was removed and replaced with a nasal cannula for oxygen at 41%, then later reduced to 35% saturation.

She continues to receive the antibiotic setriati to help with her kidney and urinary tract infection.
And her spinal bacterial infection is not identified, but is known not to be a typical meningitis strain. We should know soon from the lab results, and also regarding a viral infection in the lungs (which would make sense since the rest of the family is sick with a cold).
Her fever from Friday night resurfaced as well, and hit about 38`c this evening.


Nurses: Shelly (day); Catherine (night)
Medications: Degoxion (heart), zegerid (antacid), dopamine (blood pressure), striati (antibiotic), lenacid (antibiotic), tylenol (fever reducer), isobutyl puffer (for tube removal), ferosemide (lasic), morphine (sedation)