Making progress

It seems like Elyse has finally turned the corner.  Her saturation levels remained in the mid-90's all day yesterday, and have been holding steady.  She is still on the jet ventilator, but they are starting to turn down the supplemental oxygen and ventilator settings to see how she does with less support.  Her oxygen levels have already been reduced from 100% to 40%, which is good progress.  Sounds like the next step will be to switch back to the conventional ventilator before they extubate -- but we may still be a few days from that.  She will dictate how fast or slow any of these steps will happen.

                   kisses for his sister

Emmett came in for a visit today, which I think was helpful for him.  You can tell he misses his sister, but we are trying our best to help him understand.  Pretty sure the highlights were the bubbling drainage machines and the urine bag!

                     ohhh, what's that?

We are so appreciative of all the positive thoughts and prayers being sent our way.  I found out that on her worst day they were seriously considering putting her on an ECMO machine (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation -- basically a lung bypass), and am so thankful that she turned when she did and it didn't get to that point.  We still have a long way to go, but at least she is finally heading in the right direction!