Maya at Mary Bridge

 
 

PICTURES OF MAYA SUCTIONING HERSELF AT MARY BRIDGE HOSPITAL

At Children's Hospital, Maya was diagnosed with a terrible case of pnuemonia...her left lung was all cloudy a "white out"...no clear air in it. She seemed to get more comfortable over a few days and spent from Sunday-Thursday at the hospital and was then discharged. Thursday and Friday morning she seemed happy to be home and chilled out much of the time on her bed in her room, while her sisters played nearby. Friday at 5 PM she started having a cough attack that lasted non stop until 9:45, when the nurse on call made me promise her I would call 911...I did. Maya was admitted to Mary Bridge hospital in Tacoma where her x-ray showed no improvement from her initial X-ray at Childrens...her pnuemonia was still just as bad. Another X-ray and CT scan later showed that her left lung had collapsed as a result of mucus plugging up her bronchi and not allowing air into her lung. A procedure on Sunday scoped her airway (she was intubated) and sucked up an exuberant amount of mucus from her bronchi. 4 IVs, many episodes of suctioning, 4-5 differnt types of antibiotics, routine nebulizer treatments, and routine CPT and 1/2 hours time periods wearing a vibrating vest, Maya continues to be at Mary Bridge where her status has gone unchanged, not worse, but not better either. In the past 24 hours Maya has begun to cough up large amounts of goobers (a good sign actually) and we all hope and pray that the X-ray tomorrow morning will show improvement...Drs. today noted air was heard moving in and out of her left lung...a good sign of improvement.