Mya has been on room air without support on and off today and is doing fabulous. She was extubated on Friday morning. I will say that was one of the more tense moments we have had during this stay. We learn a little more each time we are admitted and we learned this time that she does not extubate smoothly. The floppy airway issues she has at baseline combined with irritation from a week and a half with a breathing tube meant that she was collapsing her airway and gasping for air...to put it lightly. They were able to bag her and get her onto bipap and with some repositioning keep from having to re-intubate, but I would prefer not to repeat that experience any time soon. We were able to move her pretty quickly to her own mask which she much prefers to the full face mask they were using.
But TODAY she was a rockstar. She spent most of the day without support. They took her off bipap after rounds this morning and she only needed a little oxygen support with nasal cannula a few times throughout the day. She is on a bit of morphine to help with withdrawals from some of her sedation meds and continues to receive respiratory treatments but otherwise she is doing great. I am loving how alert she is and sort of want to toss her over my shoulder and march her out of here. Keep up the good work missy.
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