Still Going Good

Things are going well for Rebecca again today. Most importantly she has continued to stay in the correct rhythm and is taking off fluid. For the 24 hour period ending at 6am this morning she had lost 71ml more than she has taken in. She has had a couple of her meds turned off today. One of them was because her heart rate got kind of low so they turned off one of her sedative meds and it came back up. The other one was one of her meds controlling her blood vessel dilation. They turned it down this morning and she tolerated it well so they turned it off this afternoon. Her blood tests have also been looking good throughout the day. Her doctor reminded us that she is very very sick and has a long way to go. Infection is the thing now we have to keep away. An infection now would be devastating to her. She is still on the 3 antibiotics which would hopefully fight any infection. They also started her on a fungal medicine because she has a lot of skin moisture and didn't want that to develop into anything. Yesterday in addition to having her chest tube removed, they took out her pacemaker wire and her NJ feeding tube out of her nose. Just a couple more encouraging moves. Taking things out of her body is much better than adding more. 

Thanks to our visitors that chose to take their day off and spend it travelling to Cincinnati and hanging with us for a while. Jessica's brother came in last night and my brother and his wife, and our friends Drew and Jessica and their little boy Mason came to see the twins. 

Here is a pic for AT&T if we just had Rebecca and Joanna in it

 Joanna smiling while uncle Josh was holding her

 Rebecca getting her CT Scan on Friday