Day 643 - Oxygen Requirements ⚠️ & No Sleep for Mom & Dad 😳
Tuesday, October 4th, 2022 So last night was pretty bad! 😩 Three of us were in a king sized bed but we also needed to keep a pillow on the other side of James so he didn't roll off making it feel like four people in the bed. James' pulse ox alarmed all night. He wasn't even on oxygen all day but then as soon as he got into a deep sleep, and he wasn't even moving his O2 would drop. Mom and Dad were up all night trying everything... 🥱 suctioning, replacing the pulse ox, repositioning the trach, making sure there wasn't any water in the circuit, but nothing was working Mom turned on the oxygen tank . It just didn't make sense why all of a sudden he would need it but be fine during the day. James was sleeping soundly while our hotel neighbors were probably like 🤬 because of the peeping! For this very short hotel stay we only brought two oxygen tanks versus the huge oxygen concentrator. The first tank we started with was only about 80% full. Mom started on 1/16, i...