June
2010
Room Air3
And for the first time since she was about 14 days old, Miss D was intentionally on room air yesterday — no oxygen at all — for two sessions of 15m each.
There’s been a sea change in Dorrieland this past year in terms of her oxygen sats. I think it really started last summer, when we were working to start the HME trials. The day the whole crew came to the house to have a look at the mist machine and try her out on everything, she was off oxygen for a good ten minutes without really desatting. It was a huge change from the girl who would drop like a rock if her oxygen was removed. After that we slowly became more comfortable with the idea that her sats were relatively stable. We started turning off the sat monitor if it wasn’t reading well due to her moving around a lot. We’d even take it off entirely for hours at a time.
The idea of having her off of oxygen on purpose, though, makes me darn nervous. It’s hard to imagine her not being connected to a tank. We’re going to take it slow, as much for our sake as for hers.
Room air is good! :-)
(June 16th, 2010 at 10:06 PM)
It’s going to be so awesome when she’s on room air full time!
(June 17th, 2010 at 5:05 AM)
It would be so so lovely to get rid of that tube for good.
(June 17th, 2010 at 7:24 PM)