DAY 15

Today is my day to go home. I wouldn't have been able to do it a few days ago. Faith was just too unstable. But since Faith has had 3 fairly good days, I am pretty excited about seeing the other kids and will enjoy them 100%. I am going to have them all climb in bed with me, eat some popcorn and snuggle all night!

Faith is my little drugie today. She was being too fiesty and reactive, so now is on a continuous drip of Versed. It is better for her...I know...but I miss seeing her "real" personality shine through.

Faith met her goal on the Nitric Oxide of 5 and now we are going to hold at that level for awhile and work on lowering some of the Vent settings.

They were able to finally get fluid off last night. 400cc's and are hoping to do that again over the next 24 hours! If so, they may try to take her off dialysis tomorrow and see how it goes.

Her feet look incredible. I wish everyone could have seen what they looked like last week to see what they look like today. Last week, they were literally a dark purple, almost black, up to mid-shin. That is why initially that is where they thought they would have to amputate from. Today, they are only marbled with some purple. Most of the tissue is pink and lookes like it is healing. The toes still hold that dark purple look, so we'll have to see about those. But, I am really hopeful about the rest of it! It has been such a crazy thing to watch the transformation. Dr. Choy has only seen this once in his career and not to this extent. Really incredible.

Tomorrow they are going to be changing the wound-vac and attempting to stop dialysis. It will be a busy day for my baby. Once I get a report from Monty, I fill everyone in on how her day went.

Take care.