Continued improvement for Emma

Praise Jesus for continued improvement for baby Emma!

It appears that Emma is on the very slow road to recovery. She has stayed stable all night and they have been able to start weaning some of her meds. I think they are going to try to pick up the pace of that as long as she remains stable. She looks SO much better just in the last 12 hours. The drainage tube they put in last night has definitely been the key to her turnaround. She has increased her urine output which means her body is working to get off additional fluid too.

Dr. Mitchell was just in and is pleased with her progress as well. He's very pleased that the swelling has been significantly reduced in her head and mentioned this bodes well for how successful her Glenn will be. When he had her in the OR yesterday he put a strut in to help keep her chest cavity open more to help relieve some of the pressure on her heart. He indicated he would like to wait until Monday to take that out unless something indicates it should be done tomorrow. After the strut is out we are looking at a couple additional days until they will completely close her. We're not sure yet how long they will keep the paralyzation drugs going, but know that she will be highly sedated until the chest cavity is closed. Once the chest cavity is closed they will work on getting the breathing tube out. It's all baby steps, but each one gets her closer to the end goal.