Brady finally got his plasma exchange transfusion overnight last night. He tolerated it well and so far his hemoglobin has been very stable. Post transfusion, about 5 am, his hemoglobin was 13.1 and at 5 pm it was holding strong at 12.6 -- 12 hours with almost no change!! That is incredible for B considering he's been needing transfusions less than 24 hours apart the last few days. I am daring to hope that maybe this is his turning point toward home. Hope. Its scary to let myself feel hopeful but I am thinking positive thoughts.
He is still on the vent for now. They stopped his fentanyl sedation at 2pm and had planned to extubate him but he had an episode where his respirations & sats dropped so they put it off. Then they tried at about 5:00 but when they disconnected the vent he didn't initiate any breaths so they said he wasn't ready and reconnected it. Now, he just had two desats and didn't initiate breaths (meaning he waited for the vent to breathe for him) so they're thinking he may need more time before being extubated. :(
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