Finally, she’s sleeping well.
Ever been at the hospital for a couple nights, and wonder why they just would seem to come in just as you had drifted off to sleep? And it pissed you off to no end? Well…
Every time TG would fall asleep, her respirations per minute would start to drop to 9.. 8… and her blood oxygen level would drop below 90 and slowly start creeping downward to 88, 87,…. So we’d have to wake her up and make her take a couple deep breaths to make sure she was breathing enough to get oxygen in her blood. It was frustrating as hell too, though I’m not sure who was frustrated more. She was sooo tired and strung out. I hated waking her every time. Had to be done.
At this point, it was one of two things: either the 2am roll to the left side put her into a position where her SpO2 was staying nicely between 89 and 91 and RPMs right in the 10-12 range… or in hitting the pain button every 10 minutes, it was sedating her just a hair too much. Either way…. she’s finally asleep. And daddy can finally relax and breathe some.
DW should be here to relieve me in about 6 hours. Hopefully TG will sleep for more of them… at least until the 4am roll.