Out of the ICU

Taylor moved out of the ICU this morning!

She had another crazy day. Her smiling high continued through the evening and into the night. The poor kid was so wired, and couldn't get to sleep. We figure she must have had only 15-30 minutes sleep total throughout the whole day and night. We would get her settled down and about to sleep when something would happen (the neighbor's tv was too loud, I would cough, somebody would walk in the room, the nurse would check on her, etc..) And everytime she fell asleep her saturation level would drop and the stupid monitor would go off. Quite frustrating. I just wanted to unplug her from everything and take her away.

Around 2:00 in the morning she started getting miserable, crying when the other baby would cry, crying when moved, crying to cry, etc... Taylor doesn't cry so you know something is wrong is when she does. She couldn't sit still either. Her head was bobbing around left to right and her arms started flailing uncontrollably. I was a bit concerned that something else was going on, but the nurses and doctors have reassured us that this is not unusual for kids having drug withdrawls. I so wanted Michelle to get a good night of sleep in the quiet room. She has been needing it so badly, but around 2:30 I asked the nurse to go get her. Taylor needed a sedative and I wanted to make sure Michelle was cool with that and also had a chance to work her mom magic before hand. Anyway, we ended up giving her ativan again and Taylor is still sleeping.

Taylor went back on a cannula around 6 this morning. Her saturation levels were just dipping a bit too much when she was asleep. She'll be weened again today from that. She needs to be off it for 24 hours before they'll let her leave the hospital.

One of the ICU doctors that saw Taylor this morning told Michelle that Taylor just needs to get out of here. The bobbing and flailing and all that are a combination of her withdrawals, her not sleeping and the environment. They told Michelle that getting Taylor to her new room that had a window might help. Yeah, right... The window that's way across the room completely out of view? There's a curtain separating us and the other child in the room with RSV. You can't see the window. And its going to be a very long day/night for Michelle and Taylor. The poor kid next to us is just crying and crying and crying. His mom can't get him to sleep. It is horrible.