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Monday, December 26, 2016

Oxygen Saturation

Christmas day we kept noticing that Adelina was looking blue.  We'd check her oxygen saturation levels and they'd be within her normal range.  Finally, around eight at night I caught her dipping into the high 60's and knew that she had been dipping all day.   I turned up her oxygen to 1/16, then 1/8, 1/4 and finally 1/2 a liter (we even went up to 3/4 for awhile).  The nurse practitioner on-call said that if she stayed at 1/2 a liter we would need to bring her into Primary's.  We waited and decided to keep a close eye on her all night and bring her in in the morning if she was still at a 1/2.  Because Addy has no oxygen reserves it can take a lot more oxygen to catch up so during the night she gradually went back to 1/16 and 1/8 depending on the time.  So here is the BEST part :)  This morning she kept sneezing and wouldn't take her pacifier.  All of the sudden she sneezed out a large hard lump of mucous.  It had been blocking her airway.  Guess who's oxygen free???  :)

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