Saturday, April 13, 2013

Sadbh’s update – April 13th 2013


Sadbh slept great and work up shortly after 7 with a huge smile on her face. As soon as I had all her equipment unhooked she was in bed snuggled up with Katie.
It had been a very windy night but thankfully Sadbh slept through all the noise and managed to stay tangle free.

We had a very busy morning since we had package everything up, give the house a quick cleaning and hit the road by 10.
Sadbh was in a great mood and was extremely playful.

We had hoped to manage trach care just before hitting the road however we ran out of time so we decided to do it when we arrived back in Seattle.

Despite the long drive Sadbh stayed awake the whole way home. She even asked to sit on my lap so she could drive a few times. Thankfully she was in a very good mood and rarely ever got fussy.

By the time we arrived home Sadbh was exhausted. She got stuck into her toys for a while as we unloaded the cars and got everything stored away.
When it came time for trach care she had fallen into such a deep sleep that she kept setting off her low heart rate monitor.

Her trach change was scheduled for this weekend but we had planned on changing it out tomorrow. Just as we were finishing up trach care this evening we made a last minute decision to change out her trach and thankfully everything went well. Sadbh woke up for a moment when I placed the new trach in her neck but she quickly dropped back to sleep. This was short lived a few moments later when she woke up and got very upset. We worked hard to calm her down and to get her trach ties secured. As soon as we finished up she finally calmed down and got to snuggle with Katie for a while.
We had video recorded the trach change but unfortunately I accidentally deleted the file when copying it over to my computer.

Sadbh had a fun evening and when it came time for bed she was out in no time.  Gerdie put her to sleep since Katie and I took Cammy to the airport for her return flight to Palo Alto.

It will be strange not sleeping with Sadbh in the room tonight since we are back to having night nurses. Hopefully Sadbh will sleep right through the night.





All the best,

Wayne, Katie and Sadbh.

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