Saturday started off very relaxing for Sadbh. Thanks to my mother and father, she was well taken care of throughout the night and even got to sleep in a little later than usual.
We got an opportunity to show our potential Au Pair, Nini, how we manage Sadbh's daily trach care, and fortunately she's still interested.
Later in the day, after dropping uncle Barry off at the airport, the three of us decided to stop off for a quick bite to eat on the way home. The restaurant we chose is really fast at getting the order in and the food out, however it is also quite noisy. That said, Sadbh didn't seem to mind much at first. She sat next to me and was playing with a few of toys.
Eventually she started to get extremely fussy, so I took her out of her car seat and passed her over to Katie.
This didn't seem to help much and we figured that we would put her back in her seat to suction her. At this point her blood oxygen level started to drop down into the eighty's and I noticed that her secretions were dripping from her artificial nose on her trach.
I quickly removed her trach nose and Katie jumped into action with the suction machine. We cleared her trach, but at this stage she breathing quite deeply and looked very lethargic.
Fortunately our server was close by so we settled up and bolted out the door.
On the drive home, Sadbh was not responding to me, even though her heart rate and blood oxygen level was back to normal. Her breathing was still quite deep and it seemed thats all that she was focused on.
As Katie drove, I called my father, who was back at the house, to make sure our supplemental oxygen equipment was set up as soon as we got into her room.
Once we got her onto her changing bed, we removed the new nose from her trach, and administered oxygen to make sure she was getting enough.
She still had a lot of secretions, and was making a terrible gagging sound, which we had never heard before.
Eventually she calmed down and it looked like we were able to get her vitals all stabilized, including her respiratory rate. Her temperature was also good, so I hope she's not about to come down with some type of cold.
Katie then fed our exhausted baby and after a diaper change, we put her in her cot where she fell into a deep sleep.
We kept a close eye on her throughout the evening and into the night, however it seems that her secretions are quite thick, despite our efforts to loosen them up.
She's doing good as I write this, but we might have to change out her trach at some stage today.
All the best,
Wayne, Katie and Sadbh.
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