Ariana has been taking almost all her bottles by mouth. She has also been on room air most of the time and gets a little oxygen for her feeds. Last Thursday the eye doctor checked her eyes and found that (as many preemies do) she had Retinopathy, which is an eye disease that causes blindness if not treated. He also felt it had progressed past a point than he allows before performing surgery. So that evening he did laser surgery on her eyes. Ariana was sedated which really worried everyone, since many babies have to be intebated (get the breathing tube) and we all know she had a very hard time coming off that breathing tube; only because her airway is damaged from having it in and out so many times. And she still gets very squeaky because of the damaged airway. We were extremely grateful that she did well and did not required the breathing tube. We won't really know the full results of the surgery for another 2 weeks, but we do know that she will not have peripheral vision due to the tissue that was damaged. Our prayers are that the rest of her vision will be great.
About her squeaky airway - they plan to do a broncoscopy, which is a small camera that they will put down her throat to look are her airway. Because of her squeaking noises and sometimes seeming to be breathing hard to get air, they want to make sure there is nothing they need to do before she comes home. She has to be sedated for this procedure too, so Lord willing - that will go well and we can look forward to bringing her home within 2 weeks :)
No comments:
Post a Comment