Sissy's Pluto Got a Breathing Tube

May 23, 2009

Airica had a good yet eventful day today.  They are not ready to remove her breathing tube yet.  However they turned the settings on the machine all the way down and her body took over and she was breathing on her own.  That was a great thing to see.  It gave us all so much hope.  Sometimes it was feeling like with every step forward there were two steps back.  

I would call today only a side step.  The sores in Airica's mouth from the breathing tube seemed to be getting worse.  It makes sense, since the tube was still in there.  The nurses and RT's decided that they would put the tube in through her nose so that her mouth could heal.  This type of intubation was normally done on small babies, but they were going to try it on Airica.  

The procedure was done very successfully, but not without some practice, and a special demonstration that was done on Pluto.  This was Alyssa's Pluto that she gave to her sister while she was in the hospital.  Airica had that along with my little pillow, the whole time she had been in the hospital.  It was very hard to worry about this procedure after being a part of the comedic intubation of Pluto.  

The nurse, RT, and I actually had a lot of fun and a lot of laughs preparing for the procedure.  It was only going to help her mouth heal.  It seemed like is was going to take a lot of tape...well it did for Pluto anyways.