Even Tougher Morning

Earlier today Sofia had trouble breathing and started to turn blue. We tried to bag her but it wasn't working so we changed the trach and that did the trick. It took a while longer so we called 911 but by the time they showed up she was fine.

We called the Dr and went in quickly to see him. Basically the theory is that somehow the trach got displaced or twisted such that it was blocking her airway. There's not much for us to understand how that happened (she was standing beforehand and that's all we really know). So we need to keep watching her as before.

Also the Dr took a look at her cut which bled yesterday and her g-tube site both of which are looking better.

One plus of seeing the Dr today was that we can post up the pictures we have from her last surgery that show her progress. You can see that her airway was still very inflammed and tight but it was open (and is now hopefully more so).



The top picture here shows the stent before it was removed looking top down from her throat. You can see how it was formerly holding open the epiglottis and vocal chords. The bottom shows her airway after the stent is removed.



Here's another shot of her airway. The white bit at the bottom isn't her trach but a bit of tissue that has grown in due to the irritation of her trach.



The top shot here shows her epiglottis and the bottom her vocal chords closed.