We're home!

Yesterday was a fairly good day and they got Maya's oxygen down to 0.2 during the night. They also only deep suctioned her about 4 times in a 24 hour period and two of those times the nurses didn't hardly get anything and they said that the bulb suction was more effective.

My mom stayed the night with Maya and this morning when I got back to the hospital the nurse turned her oxygen down to 0.1. Well it wasn't long before her oxygen levels were dropping too low and they had to turn it back up to 0.2. The doctor came in and said that it was looking good for us to be able to go home soon, that was about 7 am. I was hopefully we would be out of there by noon. Well at about 10 am she ate and then went to sleep and while she was sleeping her oxygen levels were again dropping too low. Our nurse, the aide, and the doctor all came in at the same time to watch her and see if her levels would go up. Well they didn't go down and they had to put her oxygen up to 0.3. The doctor said he was just writting her discharge papers, but said we would have to wait until the afternoon and see how she does. She did fine on 0.3 and at about 2:30 pm the doctor came in and said we could go home! YEAH!! But we would have to go home with oxygen. I was completely fine with that, I just wanted to get home!

So after talking to the doctor, the discharge person, the respiratory therapist, and the nurse doing one last set of vitals, we finally got out of there at about 4:30 pm. We are now home with Maya on 0.5 liter of oxygen. We have a doctors appointment tomorrow and will probably have another one to follow up and check her oxygen levels at the beginning of next week. I hope to be off of the oxygen by the middle of next week!