50 days in the ICU, in one room, on one bed, and barely moving a few inches – let that sink in……….. well, the reality is much more difficult than what you perhaps imagined. Rachana is stable but in critical condition, and the doctors think it’ll be like that for a while. Until she is on the ventilator she’ll… Read More ICU Day 50 – Stable but critical
Rachana is still sedated but off the paralytic meds. She looks calm and her vitals (heart rate, BP, oxygenation) are ok. She developed a fever last night and we hope it’s just the existing bacterial vegetation on her heart that is causing this, for which she is getting antibiotics. The doctors are still focusing on her… Read More ICU Day 40 – Lungs first
Things are at a standstill, which is not good cause she’s swimming upstream. There are three separate, but related, issues she is dealing with Pneumonia: The lung infection, caused by staph infection, is running in circles. We get better for a couple of days and then get a setback. For the last two days her right chest tube… Read More ICU Day 37 – Standstill
I guess you cannot go lower than your heart stopping. So after that episode 2 days ago, Rachana has had a good rebound. Yesterday we had the kids drop by and Rachana was awake for about 4-5 hours, which has never happened in the last 30 days. The kids were excited to come see mama,… Read More ICU Day 34 – Two good days
Today, Rachana’s heart stopped from 4:40 pm to 4:51 pm. In the morning she complained about chest pain on the left side but the pain went away with a few setting changes on the ventilator. Later in the afternoon her BP dropped and there was a rush of nurses to stabilize her with pressors (BP… Read More ICU Day 32 – 11 minutes
The last two days were hectic with a lot of lows. All day Saturday she was in discomfort after the Tracheostomy and also because they had changed the continuous drip of pain and sedatives to as-needed. She was very restless with aches in the feet, chest (chest tube), the neck (trach), and the nose (feeding… Read More ICU Day 29 – Another chest tube, and danger for fingers and toes
Rachana's recovery from Leukemia 