We finally, FINALLY, heard back from Harrison's doctor about the sleep study. And, we can do it again. Apparently the equipment the sleep technicians use is more sensitive than the regular O2 monitors that we use at home and in the hospital room, and of course they pick up more information. Which makes me question why they don't use the same equipment in the hospital room, and at home for that matter...I will never understand the health care industry and how our health can be so secondary to their paychecks...
Anyway, Harrison's O2 dropped a couple of times (which NEVER happens at home unless he is sick...and like I said, he was on the second day of a cold, and if they had done this study 3 days earlier when it was originally scheduled then this probably would not have been an issue, and if he does need a little oxygen support we give it to him, trach or no trach...) and the doctor is not ready to remove the trach. He was very agreeable to schedule another sleep study, and I am waiting to hear from the sleep lab with a date.
By the way, our doc was EXTREMELY angry that the sleep lab passed Harrison off to the inpatient floor...he agrees that this could have been done very easily in the sleep lab and if Harrison runs into trouble, all we would have to do is take the cap off of the trach... so hopefully he will get us into the regular sleep lab for this next try. We have until October to remove the trach, so there is some time to play with.
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