Day 3 & 4

Thursday

Sorry, missed posting yesterday.  Day 3 was pretty much a progressive improvement in the ICU.  She started the day intubated and sedated, but after a CT scan that showed no more bleeding or internal swelling, they removed the breathing tube and took her off the sedatives.  She also ended up needing another unit of blood and a unit of platelets.

Throughout the day she slowly started communicating more (few words here and there), which all started with a thumbs up after Richard B. prayed for her.  She was even moving her bed up and down herself.

Since she had the second surgery later in the day Wednesday, they decided to keep her in ICU for another night (Thursday night).

At the beginning of the day, the neurologist stopped all her anti-seizure meds to try and ensure she’d start having some seizures to record.  Still no seizures by the end of the day though.

Friday

Most of Friday morning and afternoon was the same as Thursday.  Hannah is still getting Morphine for the pain and lying quietly in bed recovering.  She still has not eaten anything and has an upset stomach after drinking sips of juice.  She whispers a few words here and there, but doesn’t talk much more than that

She did get a lot of visitors today.  My team from work all visited her this afternoon.  We totally violated the visitor limit in the ICU, but it was nice having all of them down to pray together (thanks Cameron) for Hannah and support us through this.  That goes for everyone who has visited  Can’t believe some of you have made the drive down here multiple times.  It’s a long drive!  It means a lot to us.

Around 4:00pm they moved Hannah from the ICU to the Pediatric Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (PEMU).  Here she has a much bigger, much more private room.  Shortly after moving down here, she was able to get out of bed and sit in a chair for a couple minutes.

And, she has started having seizures again.  It’s almost Midnight, and she’s had three recorded seizures so far while in the PEMU.  Now we wonder (and hope) that the neurologist will start her back on the anti-seizure meds tomorrow so that she is not having too many of them.