Tuesday am

Caroline's up this am coloring her Square 1 Art project for school. It's nice to see her up. The RT and Pulm. just left and they're going to start trying to wean O2 and pressure support this am. She's trying to get used to the feeling--doesn't like it much but is not complaining-ALWAYS a trooper! They're going to let her be of the pressure support for four hours today because they don't want to push it. She's still on a good amount of O2 (3L) which the Pulm. hoped would have dropped yesterday. We're going to work on getting it down today. Her chest still sounds super junky but they assure me she sounds better and is moving air better. They put Caroline on Contact Precautions yesterday. The trach cx's came back so they thought it safest to gown/mask/glove it. They're calling this influenza (even though the rapid test came back negative and viral cultures weren't done) and pneumonia. We're taking it one day at a time. She's getting stronger and better every day.