OHS Recovery: Day 2

Claire is doing well!  We were able to extubate yesterday and she has done fine on nasal cannula oxygen. It is so wonderful to be able to hear her making sounds again, her cry is so weak that it breaks my heart every time she cries, it's barely audible but I'm sure she will get stronger over time. That first cry was the most beautiful, heartbreaking sound I think I've ever heard. She is still pretty sleepy but I was able to hold her for quite a long time yesterday!!! We were both so surprised at how fast that happened, we had expected to have to wait several days. Because she was extubated, we were able to take a ride down and get her NJ tube replaced so she's been getting a little breast milk. She still has her chest tube and pacing wires in but we hope to get those out today. She has a very weak cough so we are having trouble getting her to clear her throat and lungs but hopefully that improves as she gets stronger as well, for now we are doing chest PT to help with that and positioning her in certain ways to help her breathe. We were still not able to break her fever so they ran a UA and blood culture last night. The only other concern right now is the fever and that she hasn't been passing very much urine so hopefully the little changes that we made last night will help that pick up today.

She's speeding through recovery, our fiesty little girl <3.