Day 4: She moved her eyes under her lids and squeezed my hand. She grimaced for one of her caregivers.
Day 5: Her breathing machine was put on "auto" which means it only takes over when she doesn't start her own breath in so many seconds. She was put on intermittent pain medicine for when she showed she was in pain.
Day 6: She was taking just about 100% of her own breaths. She is visibly stressed when fussed with and her blood pressure and heart rate went up when I was on a phone call about the accident.
Day 8: Much of the water she was retaining finally started to go away. She gained the equivalency of 4-1/2 2-litre bottles in water so it was hard to see her knuckles. Heather, one of her nurses, washed and combed her hair for 5 hours. There was grass, twigs, blood and vomit in her hair. Kelsey braided it in cute French braids.
Day 9: Katy got a feeding tube in her stomach today and took the tube out of her nose. She also reached her baseline weight. Today when I walked into the room and said her name and touched her arm, she opened her eyes. She looked to the side but didn't focus on me.
Day 10: Katy was conscious and awake most of the day. She was giving thumbs up and would hold fingers up but not the right quantity. She became pretty agitated and looked very uncomfortable so they gave her methadone for withdrawals.
They took her breathing tube out. She was able to swallow and cough but sure had a lot of fluid in her throat. Her left lung had been getting a little stuff in it so they have been working on that with resp therapy.
All her numbers are looking great.
Day 11: This morning Katy was awake when I came in. She did a thumbs up and held up two fingers. Her arterial port was removed. At 3:00 pm Katy's been sleeping well most of the day. We are all glad because she needed the rest.
Day 12: Last night's night nurse Sharon said she asked Katy if she had pain and she said throat. She was also looking at the things I held in front of her, like her giraffe and balls.
Day 13: Sharon washed her hair last night. Kelsey is braiding it up again today. Dr. Fernandez took off the nose canula which she kept trying to take off all the time. Her muscles are a little stiff and taut. Dr. Fernandez said she can probably go on the floor tomorrow. He liked the way things are going.
Katy has orders to sit up 3 times a day now.
Day 14: Katy got to move to the Pediatrics floor today but she's still under strict limitation of input. It's a nice single room with a bathroom and a built-in couch to lie on if I need to. I can even stay if I want to. She is swallowing much better and doesn't have problems breathing today but has a fever of 101.2. They gave her some Tylenol for the fever. RT is combining her treatments to every four hours. They're going to take some test samples to see if they can figure out why she's getting a fever.
Day 15: She is breathing better this morning but still has a little fever. No word yet what it's from. She had a CT and we're waiting to see what it shows. He said more fluid but it didn't necessarily mean anything.
Day 16: Katy still has a fever but has been opening her eyes today and she is more relaxed in her bpms. She's had her eyes open quite a bit today. When I asked her for a thumbs up, she'd put her thumb inside her fingers and hold it down. Twice. She had ultrasound on her legs to make sure there are no clots.
Her fever is down to 99 this afternoon. She's opened her eyes a lot today and said something like "ch ch ch ch ch"
Day 17: Katy had more CTs to see if they can find the cause of her fevers. After her CTs she went down to 99 again and is resting well. Good blood pressure reading after too.
Day 18: Gloria made Katy an elbow to wrist brace but she's been breaking it open. Her fever is under control so she is awake more now, but no recognition. She clenched her teeth and snarled at Austin when he visited but she's starting to do that and pinch and dig her fingernails in. That is normal and just a phase they go through. She is getting Afrin spray but doesn't like that at all!
Day 19: We're moving again to a room with ceiling hoist for when she is ready to start going out in a wheel chair. This morning was pretty hard, such a stressful day yesterday then this morning I missed my Katy so much, seeing her picture with her friend in a photo booth, making her silly faces. A little after that she looked at me and followed me and that helped quite a bit.
Day 20: Katy's been awake all morning. She looked at her ducky that I bought yesterday. She's been looking at me. She seems to look at something then stare so when you move it, she doesn't follow it today.
Katy's made noise twice today during sighs.
She tried to eat her cottonball today.
Day 21: Quiet Sunday for people coming in to work on Katy but she is trying to talk. She'll breathe in really deep and say "huuuh" when I ask her to say Hi. She's also pushing off her right leg so she turns to her left.
Day 22: I can't believe it's been three weeks now. PT sat Katy up for a while and worked with her, trying to get her to hold her head up. Afterward they put her in the bed-chair and sat her up for 45 minutes.
Katy's licking her lips now and keeping them clean herself.
Day 23: Katy did not sleep well last night. Since she's moving so much, she is going to have an observer at all times.
Katy got her reclining wheelchair and sling so when she was up we went for a walk. It put her to sleep.
Day 24: Katy and I went for a walk in her wheelchair. We went in the elevator to the first floor and went all the way around, cruised around the coffee shop then looked at the pictures of the history of the hospital. We also went into the chapel, said a prayer of thanks and back up to look at the fish in this ward. Then we went to our room again and she watched 10 minutes of Happy Feet II.
We went for a second walk and she stayed awake. We went to Subway downstairs and she looked at the menus. Then we went to the teen room and I threw baskets while she looked out the window then I played War cards with her while she watched. She's been in her chair a lot today and is really getting her head under control so she can hold it however she wants.
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