Monday, July 13, 2009

Today has brought rather frightening news for us. They told us when she first arrived that the last resort would be a particular bed that they could bring in. The purpose of this bed is to keep her rotating so that we can hopefully prevent the fluid in her lungs from settling. This means that Crystal's stats dropped and was at this point not doing well. She had been maintained on about 70% oxygen for the majority of Sunday night well into Monday morning with her saturation level sitting at around 94. It is good that they were able to drop her oxygen level down to this, because that much oxygen over an extended period of time can be detrimental to her. She was not able to maintain this. When the first placed her on the bed we saw dramatic improvement in her saturation level, it reached 100 at one point. It seemed that one of her lungs was better off than the other. The bed basically has Crystal strapped down. She is on her back but the entire bed is rotated over and she is face down to the ground, suspended by the bed. They tell us sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't and at this point, well, we just don't know.