Camden was born by an emergency C-Section. Cary was experiencing some contractions and when the nurse checked Camden's heart rate, it was very low. They did the emergency C-section and delivered Camden. She needed resuscitation and was transfered to the NICU.
Since then she has been on a ventilator and has been on blood pressure medication and antibiotics for a bacterial infection. At first she required the ventilator operating at as high of a capacity as possible to keep her where she needed to be. Since then she was put on a Nitric-Oxide (not Nitrus-Oxide) which has helped her blood absorb more O2 and exhale CO2 and we have been able to lower the amount of life support she needed. She is also having problems with maintaining her blood pressure and has a bacterial infection which they believe to be Strep. We will find out tonight/tomorrow if the antibiotics got rid of that. Friday evening she also had a severe "episode" where her O2 and blood pressure dropped dramatically. The last concern is the damage to the organs from the O2 deprivation during delivery. There is a cranial ultrasound on Monday night to look for a brain bleed which could be a result of the low O2 and the trauma she encountered at birth.
Camden is trending up well. Her O2 and CO2 Stats are responding very well to treatment and her blood pressure is improving, but very slowly and they have not been able to wen any drugs to support that. Even with improvement, she is still a very sick girl and needs lots of prayers.
You can see pictures of her at:
Cary, is doing very well. She is able to walk without support and pain has been easily controlled with oral drugs for the last day.
Paul
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