New Pictures of Addie

Wow! What a week. They all seem to be eventful! It's been awhile since I posted pictures, I know. So some of you may still have the immediate post op pictures in your mind. She has improved dramatically in the last week. We finally got the breathing tube out yesterday morning and so far she's held her own, with just a little help and a few bumps!

Pictures of Addie last weekend. I thought she looked GREAT! She was finally pink instead of blue and her swelling was way down.





They finally let her wake up a bit. Or should I say, she was able to wake up without turning black! She is stoned out of her mind here, but at least you can see the eyes:



She LOVES to hold these pink mouth swabs in her hand. I think they are her "magic wands" It keeps her from pulling out her lines and tubes if nothing else!



Here are some pictures from Saturday, the day before extubation! She's wide awake and looks great. It thought she looked good the week before, but her color had gotten even better! She was even smiling through the tube, if you can imagine that!




On Sunday morning she was extubated! I guess that made all of her drugs kick in, or something, because she crashed right away. Not a great plan when your lungs are a little on the weak side anyway. Here is a picture of her just after extubation. She looks a little more swollen and it always shows up in her eyes first.




Since she wasn't breathing deep enough, they moved her to C-pap. This is MUCH less evasive than the ventilator, but looks far worse too me. She hasn't minded it too much and, as the day went on, she got much stronger! She gets a little irritated because she can't eat while she's on it. Hopefully we will get this off today or tomorrow and she'll just be on a high flow nasal canula. Here are a couple pictures. We can't decide whether she looks like an elephant or a pig?