Another aborted tube procedure

I still have not spoken with surgery to find out more from their perspective. But I did speak with our resident about the tube. I was correct that it is the same tube and will be going to the same place. The only difference is that eventually we want it going through her gtube. So the reason they were not able to get it through Wednesday was because apparently it is harder to navigate through the gtube.

Teryn has had such a hard time resting. She had a very fussy night last night. Probably because she was hungry. Then all day today as soon as she would fall asleep someone would come in to change her IV, or try to get her tube in place, or do an xray. Around 1:30 they were ready for her to go down to radiology to see if they could get her current ND tube in place so she can eat.
She was so tired she fell asleep again on the way down there.

We got her in and placed her on the table. We had to wait because they could not find the orders in the computer. The orders were finally ready and the doctor came in. Right on cue Teryn's monitor started alarming. First it was just because her oxygen level was going down. The nurse sat her up to get her breathing again. She was so sleepy that it was hard to get her stimulated. Her 02 continued to go down. Then she started to brady (decreased heart rate). This has only happened on a few occasions. As we watched both rates continued to go down. The doctor got one of the residents on the phone and said that either he needed to get down there or take her back up because he wouldn't do the procedure with her current stats. The resident came down and thought maybe the monitors were not picking up correctly in relation to her heart rate but she continued to cease breathing. Her nurse and I were simultaneously stimulating her until we finally got her mad enough to wake up screaming at us. At that point that is what we wanted.

Ultimately we decided that she had been messed with way more than enough today. She really needed to get some rest. When she gets overtired it is difficult for her to fall asleep without desatting. So we are back in the NICU where we quickly changed her diaper and got her comfortable so she can get some uninterrupted sleep. We are hoping that maybe the tube will eventually works its way down into the correct place like it did last time. She will be having more xrays to check the placement. If it gets back in place then they will start her feeds again. If not, then she will go down to radiology again tomorrow for another try.

She is getting so big. She weighs 10 pounds and 4 ounces now. I took a picture of her today in one of her outfits that used to be too big. I have a picture of her wearing it at 3 weeks and then one today. I will try to get them posted so you can see the comparison.