One Foot In Front of The Other

Miss. Mallory is still taking those baby steps. She had a very good night last night. She held her own. She was holding rock steady today when she decided she needed to spike a fever. They once again put the cooling blanket on her and the temp slowly came down. They took cultures and started her on antibiotics just in case. The positive out of this whole fever episode is her blood pressure did not waver! Thats another step in the right direction. She is off the paralitic drug and the sedative. Now we just need to let those drugs work their way out of her system so she can wake up all the way and we can get the vent tube out. They did go down on the rate of the vent because she is breathing over it. She started to twitch today and even attempted to open her eyes a few times. She responds to our voices too!

We had a great visit today from Paula Brammier and Kris Goering. They flew in for the day. Funny isn't it that it's less expensive to fly to St. Louis than drive! Mallory also responded to their voices. It was GREAT to see some faces from home, and what cute faces they are. We went and had lunch at an outside cafe and had to explain to the waiter how to make a red beer. :) I haven't laughed and cried like that in awhile. Kris was also kind enough to "spiff" me up a little when she was here so I feel like myself again.

Our goal for this evening is to continue to keep the temp down, continue to turn down the rate on the vent, and pee all the sedative and paralitic drugs out! The Docs decided to do a profusion (sp?) test tomorrow. This will tell us how well her lungs are working. No worries. Since her heart was so big and her left lung was compressed they just want to see how well it's working.

I'm off for my stay at the hospital this evening. It's Scott's turn to sleep at the apartment. I'll update again tomorrow!!