Saturday, November 28, 2009

Back in ICU

During Friday night Liam was breathing strange.  We laid awake in bed,
listened to her throgh the monitor, thinking the worst thoughts.
Around 4 am we changed her.  She has a bad case of diarrhea (changing a diaper on a 14-years old is never fun.  Let alone with diarrhea.  I'll leave it at that).  We then took blood
pressure and it was alarmingly low.  Shall we go to the ER?  We decided to wait.  I got into Meitav's bed; Rachel started cleaning the house (the time was 5 am).  Periodically she checked Liam's blood pressure which began to bounce back.

Her body temp, which just yesterday was near 38C (104F), dropped down to 34.5C (94.1F)
- dangerously low.  We decided to take her in.  The time was 7 am then.  We called a friend to come stay with Meitav and drove to the ER.
By the time we made it there, both her blood pressure and body temps bounced back to normal.  Go figure.  She remained stable for the rest of the day.  A lot of vomiting early on, which later subsided.

The worst part of it all, though, was the fact that Liam didn't seem to care.  Since the G-tube surgery last week she's very lethargic.  Dangerously so. 
She never't protested or complained or whined.  She was just disturbingly quite.  We're cleaning her bottom (which is never easy and never pleasant for her), clean her vomit, turning her this way and that way, the paramedics are sticking her - and in all of that Liam is very very quite.  Almost non-responsive.   That's the worst by far.  When she finally whines or moans, we're almost happy.  A sign of life.  This is, after all, Liam, who usually lets us know right away when she doesn't like something. 




Is she in a life threatening situation?  Doesn't look like it.  Her vital signs are good.  The reason we're in ICU is due to the lethargic situation. 

 

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