Update

Great news today! Assuming things continue to go good today, Taylor will be going off the ventilator tommorrow! The plan is to stop her feeds around 3 am and remove it tomorrow. They stop her feeds so that she does not throw up when they remove the ventilator. The plan is for her to go onto an nasal cannula w/ oxygen. She'll be in the ICU overnight and then hopefully she will be moved to a regular room on Sunday!!!! Best of all, I should be able to see her back in Michelle's arms tomorrow!

She is getting a blood transfusion today. They are not sure she needs it. Because of the amount of fluid and other drugs in her blood, its hard for them to get an accurate red blood cell count. They think its for the best and will help her as she transitions off of the ventilator.

She has a couple times this morning where her oxygen levels dropped. They don't know if it was just guck in her throat and lungs needing to be sucked out, or if she was having bronchial spasms from irritation from the breathing tube. If it is spasms and they continue they will move her back to the ventilator that she was originally on.

They are continuing to give her more drugs to try and reduce the amount of fluid in her system. She is real puffy I guess still. Unfortunately, she had to have another IV for that because its a continual drip. As for the other drugs, they are being to back them off. They think that the drugs are having a compound effect on her right now making her more sedated than she needs to be. We also got some good news in that arena. Originally we were told that she would need to go on methodone as she was weened of all the narcotics, because of their highly addictive nature. But its sounds like the level of narcotics has been low enough that they won't need to do that.

All in all, its been a fantastic day so far. Michelle came home yesterday for a couple hours. We ended up keeping her here a lot longer. It was great for everyone though. My plan is to be at the hospital for the weekend starting tommorrow. I was planning on going up tonight, but I'm fighting this stupid bug too and it seems to be winning today so I'll probably just stay home tonight and go up tomorrow.