Day 142 - Continuing to Rapidly Desat! 😱
Friday, May 21st, 2021 New nurse today who had never had James before because she had a primary previously who just went home. James welcomed her in with an episode in the morning and several more throughout the day. James had speech therapy and physical therapy early this morning. They tag teamed at the same time. ENT also stopped by to check on his trach site, which looks good. She helped us sort through and organize the five trachs we have in the room; putting most of them in a drawer. Now we have the correct emergency trach hanging up! Mom was holding James for about 2 hours and around 2:00pm he ended up having a pretty bad BPD episode. Mom put him back in the bed James turned purple blue and desated into the 40s. He had several episodes throughout the day but this was the worst one (at this point). James sat up in his boppy and was very alert after Mom handled trach tie change with the RT. He would rather sit up than lie down. Around 6:30pm right before shift change Jam...