Sunday Evening Update

Caroline's home trach is in and capped w/o O2. We'll have to upsize when we get home as she had a large leak around her usual 4.0 trach. Caroline's breathing easy capped. She was satting at 92% before surgery and is up to 97-98% post surgery. That's awesome! I think she'll breathe even easier in the next week. She's really sore. They're going to pull her JP tube tomorrow. Her chest tube is still draining quite a bit and she'll have it atleast a few more days. Lungs are crystal clear! No fever!! Blood pressure is back up!

Her tummy trouble is improving. Still passing some blood in her stool. Surgery came by for a consult and thought it may have been from the enema. Still no g-tube or po feeds. They started TPN tonight in her central line. If she can tolerate half strength feeds tomm. then we'll go to the 6th floor. She did get out of bed and into her wheelchair-so glad we brought it- and payed Uno and Connect Four. She's back in bed watching her Tom and Jerry DVD. Her voice is still really raspy but managed to chat with her buddies, Sydney and Sophie tonight. They made her night I'm sure. Thanks for calling girls and she's looking forward to watching the mermaid movie when she gets back.

Mrs. Sproat's class sent Caroline the sweetest card today. It really brightened her day. Thank you everybody! She smiled the entire time she read it. SP

If you would like to mail Caroline the address is:
Caroline C. Pierce/ Titanium Rib pt.
c/o CHRISTUS Santa Rosa Children's Hospital
333 N. Santa Rosa St.
San Antonio, TX 78207