Back on the road

What a difference a couple days make. Actually, it was just a few hours. Yesterday afternoon Becky was still on the ventilator and there was pretty ugly stuff coming out of her lungs. Today it was placed on “Standby” and as of this evening it’s no longer in her room.

Yesterday afternoon Becky was still on mild sedation and the respiratory therapist admitted this afternoon that Becky wasn’t in a great place yesterday. However, a night’s rest and a nap this morning seems to have done wonders. There will still be some breathing treatments and she has some breathing exercises to do, but she’s just on minimal oxygen at the moment - no machine.

The delirium doesn’t seem to be a problem this evening. Crossing my fingers that she’ll be just as clear headed tomorrow morning when I return. Liver is still looking great. Unfortunately we’re still waiting for the kidney to wake up, but the biopsy showed no signs of rejection so no major concerns there at the moment. We’ll just keep waiting for now.

If there are no surprises overnight, she should be able to start a clear liquid diet tomorrow, physical therapy will be by to get her out of bed, and we may even start talking about a plan to get her off the CRRT and start traditional dialysis (unless her kidney wakes up, which would be even better).

So, after five weeks in the ICU we seem to be back on the road to recovery.

Thanks to all for the prayers! Keep ‘em coming!