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Day 458 - Bacteria in Culture 🧫 & Bigger Trach?

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Saturday, April 2nd, 2022 Since Mom slept at home, Dad had the shift at the hospital. This was the best sleep Mom has had in a long time. Texts from Dad to Mom (our charting 😂): 9:00am  "Overall a good night.  We both slept from 9:30p-1a. Then the LOW PEEP alarm was nonstop. I redid the circuit setup - put him through the railing, lowered that hanging water bottle, lowered the table, and got a massive amount of water out the line. (I had RT in here with me while I did it).  Then vented him for a bit from 7:45a-8:45a and diaper change since he wasn’t settling. Lowered the Farrell bag. Got done around 3am and just woke up now.  He’s still in and out of sleep.   Around 8:20a, the nurse, gave him the 7mL of Bactrin way too fast and he spit up more then I’ve seen.  They’re doing rounds now." Mom found out the day nurse is someone we had in the NICU. Nice but very incompetent. Definitely not our pick. We had several incidences in the past where she blew Mom's m...