Angela tolerated the reduced airway pressure down to 16 well, but when they tried to switch her to the conventional ventilator, they found that her compliance (this is the opposite of stiffness) was not even close to what they wanted. This can be measured directly when one is hooked up to a conventional ventilator but not on the Oscillator, so they didn't know that in advance. The respiratory therapist who tried, used a bag on her to manually ventilate her and said that she didn't seem stiff to him, but she's just not ready. Her doctor said we were probably just getting a little impatient and she'll be ready in a day or two.
Other than that, the Lasix is working - the other day you could barely tell she had eyelashes, her eyes were so swollen. Today, she was trying to open them. Her hands are also about half the size they were.
So, it has been a positive day, just not quite what we had hoped for. When I left she was breathing 35% oxygen and maintaining sats of around 94% at an airway pressure of around 16. They will try to lower that to 15 overnight, but I don't think anything else is planned except to wait until her lungs heal a bit more.
God is continuing to heal her, but in His time, not ours. We are continuing to praise Him.
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