Another great day for Zoe. she had a really good gas lab this morning, a CO2 level of 51. She had rested peacefully all night on 21% air- room air with the added pressure from CPAP at level 5. At around 12:00 today they turned down Zoe's CPAP pressure to 4 and didn't have to up her oxygen at all, which means she is doing much batter at being able to expand her lungs by herself. She also doesn't look like she is pulling as hard when she breathes as she did a few days ago. If she keeps all this up we will hopefully be able to try a feeding tube again next week some time and maybe onto a nasal canula by next week.
I was able to hold her againt his afternoon for a few hours and she settled right in. It's really nice to be able to move her around a bit more now that she doesn't have the tube that goes into her lungs. She is a bit more flexible now and has a pretty good upper body strength. I was holding her on my chest today and she was able to lift her entire upper torso and head and move them about 4 " to the left, I was pretty amazed after watching her not move for weeks on end. The physical therapy crew are coming to take a look at her tomorrow and start some exercises with her to get her a bit more limber.
Zoe's morphine was also dropped to .1 today. Down from .6 just 1 1/2 weeks ago after surgery. She's done really well with the weening so far, I've heard so awful stories about how long this canall take so so far I am really encouraged.
