Yesterday Isabella was the same, intubated and sedated. Early this morning, however, another scare: an agitated Isabella managed to pull her breathing tube out. Scary for a while, but the doctors decided to go ahead and try leaving it out.
With no tube, Corenne was able to hold Isabella, who stroked her face and grabbed her nose and became completely calm. Every time a nurse wearing white came in, poor Isabella's eyes would grow wide and she would watch the nurse's every move with terror as if to say "what are they going to do to me next?"
By this afternoon, Corenne said she feels for the first time that the worst was behind us, and that Isabella may finally be on the road to recovery. She just seemed stronger and more alert. There is still a lot of secretion into her lungs, but her color seems to have returned. Mama just knows her baby, and was pretty upbeat this afternoon for the first time since last Thursday, when Isabella started her long, downhill slide.
Thank you for your prayers. I hope we have more good news tomorrow.
HISTORY: Isabella was adopted into the Smith family July 18, 2008. She had been born 2-months prematurely, and was 2 months old when we got her. One week later, she suddenly had a breathing crisis and was rushed to the hospital following a traumatic resuscitatation.
This was the begginning of a (now) seven month odyssey. Isabella suffers from Bronchial Displasia, related to premature lungs at birth. Whenever she gets a cold or flu bug, within hours it can become life-threatening.
Between medical incidents, Bella (or "Bellaboo" as Marc calls her) is strong, fat, healthy, robust, smart, active, alert. She is an EASY baby, happy, sleeps well, eats well. However, over 40% of her little life since birth has been spent in the Intensive Care Unit -- with either her Mommy or her Daddy at her side.
This was the begginning of a (now) seven month odyssey. Isabella suffers from Bronchial Displasia, related to premature lungs at birth. Whenever she gets a cold or flu bug, within hours it can become life-threatening.
Between medical incidents, Bella (or "Bellaboo" as Marc calls her) is strong, fat, healthy, robust, smart, active, alert. She is an EASY baby, happy, sleeps well, eats well. However, over 40% of her little life since birth has been spent in the Intensive Care Unit -- with either her Mommy or her Daddy at her side.
