Post op. ( 03/27/2014. PM)

As I mentioned early it was quite a delay on " getting the room ready" & the real reason was Olivia had stopped breathing for a minute after the surgery due to the high sedation :( From that point on things worsen for her. At first she started to froth blood out of her nose to what we were told it can happen sometimes. This went on for an hr, than the frothy blood started coming out of her mouth. We were really getting concerned at this point as we saw our daughter fighting the oxygen mask off of her face. It was hard to watch & to find out that what was actually going on was her gasping for air. Due to the high IV fluid intake for the surgery & the kidney not working at 100% at this point ( since frozen for transportation sometimes it can take up to 48 hrs to gain full function) Olivia's extra fluid that her body couldn't output had all gone into her lungs. At that point chaos started. They did a chest X-ray and it didn't look good. Her lungs were filled with blood ( pulmonary edema) & it was so bad that had they to come up with an emergency plan or she was gonna go in to cardiac arrest if this continued. The panic, the fear, the tears, the anger was overwhelming us as we had gone 36 hrs with no sleep at this point . All I could do is pray and ask our family & friends to do a chain of prayers so GOD can help our little girl which was struggling for her life. Thankfully GOD has chosen great doctors for Olivia ( especially her nephrologist. She is The BEST). The respiratory therapy team & all her staff rushed into the room & their goal was to put the breathing tube ASAP back on to open up her lungs and treat the situation before it became life threatening. It was soooo horrible. They tried to intubate her for quite a while with no success bc her trachea was so full of fluids so they couldn't see very well & she kept dropping on her sets & kept stop breathing ( they had to beg her once). Finally after what felt like 30 min ( didn't time it) they were able to put the ventilator tube in, sedated her & with an every 30 min plan/med change they were successful at stabilizing her ( around 11:00 pm that night). GOD thank you for everything you have done for us. & thank you for choosing amazing doctors & medical staff that want the best for our little girl.