I had a good night last night. My dad had been with me all night. At\u00a06am\u00a0\u00a0when visting\u00a0hours\u00a0were over\u00a0dad went to get coffee and to call mom, when he came back\u00a0my breathing tube\u00a0was being pulled out at that moment.\u00a0Mom flew up there right away to be with dad and me.\u00a0 The tough part is that\u00a0visiting hours don’t start up again till 10 am. Mom and dad could barely stand not being able to be with me in the room cheering me on.\u00a0Mom was able to come in and see me even with a few raised eyebrows looking her way.\u00a0As you know, only one parent in the room at a time.<\/p>\n
I am breathing on my own right now. I never knew how darn hard it was to pump air into those lungs. The machine has been doing it for\u00a0me for\u00a0so long that I have become accustomed to not having to work so hard.\u00a0So far so good. I am doing okay not great but okay. I am having to be nebulized and given steroids for my stridor. You may ask what is stridor? It is when the airway is obstructed. Since I have been intubated\u00a0 for a month my throat is very swollen. The nebulization helps take away the inflammation as well as the steroids. I am also being aspirated quite often.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My parents have not\u00a0left my side. This time there\u00a0is not going to be any\u00a0mishaps and there\u00a0is\u00a0no room whatsoever for error. I needed all the stars correctly aligned for me. The doctors\u00a0were already saying that I was\u00a0walking a very fine line\u00a0of having to be intubated again.<\/p>\n
\u00a0At 7pm that evening, I started having a harder time breathing. The stridor is really messing things up. Dr. Boza another great doctor who looks after me\u00a0has decided that it is time for me to go on the Bi pak mask. This is a mask that covers the majority of my face and pumps air into my lungs. If my lungs begin to collapse the air helps inflate them, the mask also puts alot of pressure on my face and that makes me very anxious. I have to be sedated a bit so I can remain calm. The mask is very uncomfortable but I am managing I hope I do well throughout the night.<\/p>\n
Malia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I had a good night last night. My dad had been with me all night. At\u00a06am\u00a0\u00a0when visting\u00a0hours\u00a0were over\u00a0dad went to get coffee and to call mom, when he came back\u00a0my breathing tube\u00a0was being pulled out at that moment.\u00a0Mom flew up there right away to be with dad and me.\u00a0 The tough part is that\u00a0visiting hours […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1058"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1058\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.maliamoore.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}