Pretty girl wide awake! Thankfully her clothes are hiding all of her monitors!
Sully and Pink Bear watching over Karter
Hey guys what are you doing??
This should be about her stats; however this read is with oxygen being pumped into her body. Her oxygen level in this picture is 92, they would just like for it to stay in the 80's and go no lower than 75. One day it will read 100!!!
Mommy and I rocking....too bad I am not sleepy!
Today was the day we were suppose to be going home; however, God was watching his little angel and had other plans in store for us today!
So the bags were packed, packets turned in, and the medicine was in the cooler, the only thing missing was the final signature of our nurse on our discharge papers and for Karter's monitors to be pulled off (they save these till right before you walk out the door). While we were waiting on the nurse to come in the room to finish our process of discharging us I feed Karter that way she would have a full belly for the ride home. As I did this her PCT (Vitals Tech) came in and made sure that her blood pressure was good and fixed all of her cords so that they could get accurate vitals for the final few minutes of her stay. Upon finishing her bottle I tried to burp her; however, she was having one of those times where she only burped just a little bit. Therefore we decided it would be best to lay her on her side to sleep so that she would be better able to burp if she needed to. It is not uncommon for me to lay her on her side to avoid getting a flat spot on her head, plus she loves to lay this way and it seems to help with her nose congestion. As we were waiting on the nurse Terri and I both noticed that her stats were dropping into the 60's and pretty much staying there. Since they have someone to monitor her stats at all hours we decided not to bother her but let her be and ask the nurse if we needed to allow her to lay like this at the house or if it could cause her to loose oxygen laying like this. About 10 minutes later the nurse walked into the room saying that she was going to grab our discharge papers and be right back. She apologized for it taking so long but she mentioned that she had to discharge another patient and had done them first. (This is where we believe God had intervened for the day) Before she left I asked her my question concerning her laying on her side. She said that she would call the doctor but before she did that she wanted to see if her stats would turn to normal if she laid her on her back. She turned her on her back and low and behold they did go back up. She then proceeded to lay her back on her side and her stats began to drop. Since we knew that she was keeping her stats in the norm when on her back she turned her back to her back before she was going to make her call to the doctor to ask what could be causing this weird reaction. MIND YOU KARTER WAS STILL ASLEEP AND LOOKED VERY PINK! SHE WAS IN NO DISTRESS NOR HAD SHE BEEN PRIOR TO THIS TIME.
After returning her to her back Karter then started to go down hill. Her oxygen level began to go down and down so the nurse called her charge nurse. By time the charge nurse arrived Karter was clearing in the 50's so the charge nurse asked for a resident to be called in, by time the resident was called Karter was in the 40's. This set off another chain of reactions from the Children's Miracle Crew, they then pulled out the oxygen mask from the wall and put in a code blue. Karter's oxygen was now in the 30-40's and it was not coming up. We were in a full fledged Tet Spell. The Code Blue crew we began to find out involved a respiratory team, the CRASH CART (which was specifically asked for by the charge nurse), the cardiac team from the 8th floor, our cardiac doctor, the ER crew, and the ICU Cardiac Crew. All of these people were in the room in just a matter of seconds of her giving a code blue page. In the meantime the nurses were trying their best to get Karter oxygenated. When the doctor walked in he took over and began doing his tricks to handling a Tet spell. His drug administrator grabbed Karter's dosage chart off of the wall so that she was prepared for dosage of medicine for CPR. When she grabbed this sheet we knew it was bad, well and the fact that a PRIEST was called into the room to console us! After about 15 minutes they were able to get her under control with some oxygen. The doctor then explained to us that she had a Tet spell and that obviously we were not going home today. He told us that they would be trying to up her medicine and see how that worked.
So as of today we will not be coming home until they can officially regulate her medicine. A doctor did come in later this afternoon to check on Karter and I asked if having these Tet spells were common while they were sleeping and calm and he did share with me that they were not common at all. The spells are generally set off by becoming distressed. He also shared that our main cardiologist would be giving us more information tomorrow. So for now Karter is on oxygen and doing good. They did try weaning her early this evening and she just could not tolerate it so they put her back up on 5 liters at 40% which is not bad but is not necessarily good either. They will probably try to start SLOWLY weaning her late tonight or early tomorrow morning.
We are very thankful that we were not discharged first today and can only thank the power of prayer and the grace of God that we were chosen to be discharged second. Had we have been discharged first she would have had the spell on the way home and there is no telling what could have happened. Thank you everyone for your thoughts and prayers!
Please continue to share Karter's Bow of Faith!
Love,
The McHams
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