And the beat goes on and on...

So we are still in la-la land, aka Childrens, but that's alright. First the pain is much,much better. She's still guarding and very uncomfortable if the tube is touched, but she is moving around now and wanting to get up and move about the room. Today she managed to walk down the hallway to the art room and paint a wooden puppy but it certainly took a lot out of her. That's when her fever started to climb again as well as what we are dealing with now, high blood pressure. She then promptly fell asleep and while she was sleeping her face swelled up, turned bright red, had the pallor around her mouth and nose, and her whole body felt uncomfortable. Her site is healing nicely but she is incredibly distended from lack of "moving things along" so that's adding to her pain/uncomfortableness/swollen belly. Tomorrow we will be discussing what to do about this b/c she's 'gained' almost 2 pounds due to blockage. Just freaking peachy.

As for this morning her cough was worse again so they ordered another x-ray to make sure things are going in the right direction. At first the doc on call thought (when I told him) that she was coughing a lot more that it was a good thing, that she was opening that section of lung that is stuck together, as he was leaving the room she had another coughing fit (he had not heard the cough) and walked right back over, listened to her, saw her gasping for air (with O2 on) and then said "What is that?!". At this point I just shrugged because if he had been listening to me he'd have known THAT is what she had been doing all night. Needless to say he said maybe you can leave tomorrow but in the meantime we need another chest x-ray. It's still not back yet :/ so dunno what the deal is.

Her heart rate decided last night that it had had enough of being a speed demon and then took the pace of a Moped and we had a fun filled night of alarms from that! The nurse manually counted out her respiratory rate and it was in fact 10...this from the kid who lungs like to march to their own beat therefore she rolls at about 25-45. Needless to say it was yet again, another long night.

All in all though things seem to be on the mend. I am not sure what to make of her BP, RR, HR, fever, or facial swelling but at least I am not the only idiot in the club right now. We have a bunch of doctors right there with us!

PS: Remember those old TLC commercials about Merlot and Email not mixing? Well last night, yesterday nights post could be the same token...stress from a long day/night and Blogging might not mix! Sorry for the dour mood of it all, this "stuff" has just taken a bit of a toll this time.