Oxygen

I started Niko on oxygen three nights ago, and it’s going horribly. 

She HATES it.  I swaddle her first so that she does not have free arms to fight me.  But she twists and screams like crazy. 

The first night I attached the nasal cannula, I started sobbing.  I hated seeing her look like a hospital patient in our own home.  Kiril and I have never done this before, and we were clumsily fumbling to get the dressings on her face.  Her cheeks are so small that I had to cut the sticky film to a quarter of its original size.  We went through so many of them because they kept sticking to our fingers and not her face. 

Finally, we managed a haphazard job.  But Niko slept worst than ever all three nights.  I thought that the purpose of using oxygen is to improve her sleep.  The past three nights, she woke up about every 10 – 20 minutes all night long.  She kept trying to shake the cannula off.  I expected her to get used to it, but she obviously hates it.  Now she’s not even doing the solid three hours of sleep at the start of the night (that she used to do without oxygen). 

I’m willing to give this oxygen thing a solid month.  But in the meanwhile, Kiril’s cousin suggested an oxygen tent or oxygen hood.  I’m still not able to find those for sale online but I’ll keep looking.  And ask the pulmonologist to see if that could be an alternative option.