Landing
The doctor in charge of the I.C.U. and Amacker's overall general progress said yesterday that extubating a patient who has been sedated and intubated a long time is a bit like landing a plane. You want to get the thing on the runway. You have all the flaps and landing gear in place, but if you're 200 feet off the ground and cut the engine, you still might crash.
You want to have everything lined up perfectly before you extubate a patient, and Amacker still isn't ready. They will continue to make her work her lungs more and more each day, but he reckons she'll probably be ready by the middle to end of next week.
With that news, Dad has returned to Dallas to take care of some urgent business, and will come back to California when he's needed here again. Alden is staying with me, and probably enjoying some quality time with her niece and nephew. She could probably deal without her cantankerous brother, but I come with the furniture.
I left Amacker in Alden's and Dad's care this morning, and Alden's this evening. I spent the day in Santa Cruz at my son's beach soccer tournament, and doing beachy things with my daughter between games. I am sunburned in only the exposed parts, so that naked I rather resemble the Purina logo.
I'll leave you with that image.
You want to have everything lined up perfectly before you extubate a patient, and Amacker still isn't ready. They will continue to make her work her lungs more and more each day, but he reckons she'll probably be ready by the middle to end of next week.
With that news, Dad has returned to Dallas to take care of some urgent business, and will come back to California when he's needed here again. Alden is staying with me, and probably enjoying some quality time with her niece and nephew. She could probably deal without her cantankerous brother, but I come with the furniture.
I left Amacker in Alden's and Dad's care this morning, and Alden's this evening. I spent the day in Santa Cruz at my son's beach soccer tournament, and doing beachy things with my daughter between games. I am sunburned in only the exposed parts, so that naked I rather resemble the Purina logo.
I'll leave you with that image.
3 Comments:
I am glad you were able to take some time with your kids and to relax a bit. I know the last 3 weeks have been extremely stressful and draining on you - hope that helped recharge your batteries a bit. Hope your son did well at the tournament. Put some Aloe on the sunburn and drink lots of water and you'll feel better in no time!
Richard has been so wonderful. He has been a brick through all of this. Although it seems my coming here was premature (in terms of Amacker waking up) it is also good to spend some time with my brother and his terrific kids. I don't know how many people reading this blog know Richard and his kids, but they are honestly the best people I know. I am constantly amazed by his incredible, intelligent, creative and polite children, by their beautiful and dynamic mother, and by my gentle, humorous, compassionate brother. I don't know what their mother and father did to bring up such wonderful kids - but if they could bottle it, they'd be millionaires!
Just wanted to send my best wishes to Amacker and her family! She sounds like a amazing person!
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