Joanna Needs Prayer

Update....

In the last 20 minutes I have gotten phone calls about both Joanna and Rebecca.

Joanna-

The results of the head ultrasound show only a minor bleed. Therefore, nothing will be done to intervene. They will monitor closely and follow with another ultrasound. Her ventilator settings had to be increased a little today, but not too bad. She had one PICC placed in her left arm.

Rebecca-

She had 2 PICCs placed, one in her left leg and they had to shave part of her little head to place the second in her right scalp. She got 2 in case they had to give a drug that wouldn't be compatible to be ran in the other PICC. Her nurse said they have worked with her alot this afternoon and she is doing really well.

Praise God for AGAIN bringing us through another frightening several hours. We anticipate more ups and downs but gladly take any little victories we can.

Earlier this afternoon -

After a couple of remarkable days, we had another setback today. Early this morning when I was taking some milk to NICU, a Dr. told me Joanna had some thing going on they were trying to figure out. A couple of hours later she came to our room and told us they did an X-ray and found air outside of her lungs (pneumothorax) they stuck a needle in between her ribs to pull of the air and it seemed to correct the problem. Thinking she was doing fine, we went early to Children's around 8:00 to see Rebecca and to be there for Doctor rounds where the discuss the days plan. That happened around 9:30 and she is doing wonderful. While we were there she had the lights removed from her and she had her first bowel movement. She was also moving her arms and legs all over the place.

We returned back from Children's right at 11:00 when Jessica's pass said she had to be back. When we got back to her room our plan was to go right down to see Joanna. We were bombarded with several different staff and then the NICU Dr. showed up to give us an update on Joanna. He summarized the stuff I already mentioned then told us that during her Dr. rounds she appeared to have seizure like activity. It's not like adult seizures, babies do things differently. He said Joanna was kind of smacking her lips and doing a licking type motion. They gave her seizure medicine and he said it seemed to help. He also said there is a chance she was just licking the tube in her mouth. He also said her blood count was really low compared to the previous one. She has had an X-Ray of her abdomen and chest and there is no internal bleeding there. The fear is that she has bleeding in the brain. She will be getting another ultrasound of her head soon and we should have preliminary results this evening. Our heart sinks every time there is a knock on our door. Again, Rebecca is doing great and here is a video to prove it (top). Please keep praying for both of them but especially Joanna right now as we await her ultrasound results (bottom).