Thursday 7AM

During the night Bev had trouble breathing. The doctors cleared her throat and airways and took a bedside chest x-ray.  Later Bev continued to have trouble breathing so a fourth tube has been added to her chest.  This problem is probably caused by the fractured ribs having penetrated one of her lungs, this allows some air and fluids to enter the chest area. Somehow this affects her breathing. Because of this her respirator was turned up higher again.  The respirator is now being lowered back down to encourage Bev to breath on her own.  This has delayed the operation on all of her fractures to this afternoon at the earliest.