The Little Houdini

Although Sam was fast asleep for most of the day and evening yesterday, apparently at 3:30 am this morning, she was wide awake and pulled out her trach. Yes, she pulled her whole trach out. It was a couple of hours before the nurses noticed and fortunately Sam was fine and they were able to reinsert the trach without difficulty. The good news is that when they tested her oxygen levels she was still at 100% and they now think that they will be able to actually remove the trach entirely on Monday, if all goes well. The bad news is that they now do not trust that Sam won't pull anything out again, so they had to put mesh mitts on her hands this morning. Sam studied how the mitts were placed on her hands, and by the afternoon had untied them and taken them off, much to the nurses horror, and i.e. they dubbed her the little Houdini. After Sam figured out how to take the mesh mitts off, the nurses felt the need to up the ante, and so Sam now has on what looks like oven mitts. She was already studying them this evening when I visited her and am sure it won't be long until she figures those out as well. Sam was actually not doing well this evening, as her speech was mostly unrecognizable and she was totally fixated on her mitts. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.