Between 10 & 10:30 last night she started hurting again. This time she said it was a 6 or 7 on the pain scale (both episodes yesterday were a 9-10 for her). After her pain yesterday afternoon, they had left her epidural on 5 (6 is as high as they can go, but they wanted to keep it lower because being on 6 is what was causing her O2 & BP to drop). So, last night the only place to go to control the pain was back to 6...that's what they did, and it seems to be working.
The nurse and I are having to monitor her O2 and respiratory rate, and wake her every time it drops to make her take deeper breaths so they won't have to drop her epidural back down to 5. So, no much sleeping going on here.
It is 4:40 now, and she just woke up about 4:15 hurting again. She breathed through the pain, and now she is resting. She is such a brave little girl.
Please continue to pray for minimal pain...also that she can increase her breathing exercises to avoid pneumonia. The exercises are pretty painful so she has been resisting filling her lungs.
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