February 2nd 2011
I am finally down to 2.5 liters of oxygen. The doctors are saying that I am better and that I am ready to be moved out of ICU. However, they do not believe that I will be able to go home without O2. At the Children’s hospital, when you move out of ICU you go down to another floor where things are not as controlled as in ICU. Instead of being in a room with 5 or 6 kids I will more likely be in a room with more. I will not have my own nurse and my parents will be doing most of the work. My parents are worried about me being in a room full of children that are all sick and am worried about me catching something else. It has been really hard for me to ward off bacterias and we do not want to risk me catching something again. We are talking to my pediatrician Dra. Castro at CIMA (the private hospital) to get me transferred out of here and into my own private room so that I can recover.
In order to be approved to go home with oxygen, the Children’s hosptial has to send out a social worker to my home and approve of our living arrangement. One of the nurses told me that it would take more than a week for the approval to get O2 at home. We do not want to wait a week longer and have decided that if we need to take O2 home we will just rent it. The docs are saying that since my lungs have been so severely damaged that it will probably take months for me to be able to breathe on my own again. We shall see.
Love Malia
At The children’s hospital,