ROUGH DAYS

The past two days have been difficult for Shantel and today they have moved her to PICU. She is having to work very hard to breath so they have given her 3 doses of 60mg of steroids (YIKES) which messes with her sugars.....at one point today her sugars were so high the machine didn't read it! She has also been put on continuous heliox, a combination of helium and oxygen, and albutural. Working this hard to breath wears her out so she has been sleeping a lot. We know she's in good hands at Duke with nurses, Dr.s and staff that care about her and take excellent care of her. We also know she's in the best hands with God and His timing will be perfect for her lung transplant. It's just so hard to wait!!