DAY 5 IN HOSPITAL UPDATE

I wish, with all my heart, I could say the Hua Hua was doing wonderfully and that she was off the respirator and in my arms, but that is not the case. She is still sedated and intubated and will be for some time.

For those of you who are following along and praying I will give some specifics and ask you to pray with all of your hearts.

A couple of concerns for PRAYER:

1)Liquid in Lungs:

Everyday they take an X-ray of her lungs in the AM. Katie Grace Hua Hua has had a light shadow in her right lung and it is growing. They have her on antibiotics, so if it is pneumonia, they are working on it already. They believe it could be or it is just some gooey junk collecting that gets by the breathing tube and is not get sucked out when the suck it out. They are going to palpitate her lungs today by thumping hard on her on the chest to get it moving. I doubt that will be comfortable after having her chest wired shut. :( Think of how tender broken bones are? They are also going to do a sonogram to look at it and see if they can put at chest tube back in and into the lung and drain the stuff out. This should help her OXYGEN SATS (the number we watch continuously).

2)Calm Her Fears:

Also, even thought they have her on many sedation drugs, she continues to wake up and try to get up. I knew she would do that. This child has abandonment fears. She will claw her way out of the deepest sedation to get to mom. She PANICS. When she does get upset and agitated, OXYGEN SATS go down. They take awhile to go back up.

3)Trying Another Medication in Drip to get her off Ventilator:

Yesterday afternoon and into evening, her SATS lowered a little, so they dialed Oxygen back up to 85% and Nitric Oxide back up to 20%. Not the direction she needs to go in, in order to get off of the ventilator. So they are trying a Pulmonary Hypertension medication today in a drip to see if it is effective so that they can get her of the N.O. and off the Vent soon.

There it is. Our precious little, silly, happy, munchkin needs a touch from God today.

I keep praying that the Holy Spirit breaths His BREATH into her which is perfect and healthy and would bring health to her lungs.