Best Day Yet

Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:00 pm

Morgan had her best day out of the womb, yet! We are so happy with her progress today. She took her sweet time recovering for a few days, but, boy, did she make us smile today.

As we shared earlier, Morgan swtiched from the high-frequency ventilator to the nasal C-PAP, this afternoon, around 1:00 pm. When we went to visit her tonight, after dinner...SHE WAS STILL ON IT! Yay, Morgan! We understand that it is highly likely that she will return to the high-frequency ventilator, but we are celebrating her progress today. There are numbers on machines, balances in the gasses in her body and other indicators that allow us to tell how well she tolerates the type of breathing assistance she receives. She's up one minute, down the next and sideways the others. Tonight the indicators were telling us that she is tolerating it very well. We owe her successful day to the steroid regimine and she will taper off of the steroids tomorrow. It is our prayer that the steroids have provided some sustainable improvement and that she will be able to continue to develop without them.

Further, Morgan's feedings have been suspended. We hope to have her return to milk in the next day or two. Her digestive system is, obviously, critical to her development. We pray that she will allow us to help her and that she will be able to progress. We are thankful for the snail's paced development of her lungs, but she also needs to get going with this highly important peice to her puzzle.

Continue to pray for the doctors, nurse practitioners and nurses caring for our little girl. We cannot sing their praises from a high enough mountain.

We continue to be overwhelmed with your prayers, kind words, hugs and gestures of kindness. Our thanks could not be expressed deeply enough.

Seth and Elizabeth McCoin