Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Sadbh’s update – November 5th 2013


Sadbh woke up bright and early and was ready for a busy day.
She woke up several times throughout the night but thankfully always went back to sleep.
Crystal was able to cap Sadbh’s trach for 42 minutes, which is a great accomplishment for recent nighttime trach capping.
Our night nurse is quite noisy and wakes both Katie and me up at least four or more times throughout the night. I’m surprised that Sadbh sleeps as well as she does considering.

We had originally scheduled to manage Sadbh’s monthly trach change last week however our medical supply company shipped Sadbh’s equipment a week late, specifically her replacement trach.
It arrived last night so we planned on changing it out today during trach care.
We worked on keeping Sadbh very busy and active this morning in an effort to tire her out. It worked out and after a little stand off she was soon sleeping. I think it was the promise of ice cream that did the trick.

Trach care went well and so did trach change. She did not flinch when I put in the new one. Surprisingly I felt a little resistance when I pushed the new trach in threw her stoma, however it went in fine and she had no problems breathing.

Sadbh slept for almost two hours and immediately asked for ice cream as soon as she woke up.
The rest of the day was spent building castles and playing hide and seek.

During dinner she had both Katie and me in stitches when she pretended that her taco shells were her ears.




All the best,

Wayne, Katie and Sadbh.

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