We woke up at 6am this morning to discover that Sadbh’s trach collar humidifier was not switched on and her trach was very dry.
With all the equipment needed to keep Sadbh’s trach from drying out, something is bound to go wrong and unfortunately, thinking that I was turning it on, I actually switched off the humidifier moments after Katie had switched it on.
Despite sounding very dry, she was quite happy and did not seem to be under distress.
We worked hard to humidify her trach and get her comfortable again.
By the time we succeeded, both Katie and I were exhausted, completely stressed out and obviously felt terrible that we let this happen.
My father took the lead on managing trach care today, and he did a fantastic job. I was extremely impressed on how thorough he was when cleaning, and also how confident he was.
Sadbh is one lucky girl to have such an amazing grandfather.
By the time she was ready for bed, she seemed to be extremely tired, however it took forever to get her to settle down and off to sleep. Even after falling asleep, Sadbh was very restless and kept waking up crying.
She hasn’t had a poo in a couple of days, and we think she might be constipated. Plenty of farts, but that’s about all.
We did try giving her “gripe water” which is supposed to help, so fingers crossed we will have a more comfortable baby within a few hours.
Take care,
Wayne, Katie and Sadbh.
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