Rickelle is in ICU again so we have been tremendously busy with everything so I have had no time to post. Her CO2 levels were dangerously high when we went to the emergency room last week. Of course we did not know that until we got there. We went in because her blood oxygen levels were a little low and her heart rate was high. The emergency room doctor was going to let her go home! (I'd like to have his license.) We finally complained enough that they brought down the intensivist and he admitted Rickelle for respiratory failure. She's been on a ventilator ever since.
She is doing just fine. She breaths a few breaths very shallow and then takes a regular breath. The doctor does not like this and even though she is breathing on her own over the machine, and her stats are perfect, they are still wanting to send her home on the ventilator. I'll save the excitement of all this for another post.
Rickelle is ready to come home except for getting the ventilator equipment and training done.
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