Moving towards surgery

Caroline has been hitting all her targets over the last couple of days and the doctors are generally happy with her progress. Thank you so much for your prayers! So far, she has only needed ECMO at 50% of what she is allowed to have, she has passed fluid which is a good sign that her swelling is going down, and she is moving a little bit which is a good sign that she is able to come off the medicine that is intended to keep her paralyzed while on ECMO.

Over the next couple of days, they are going to try to wean her more off the ECMO machine to see how she handles it. At the levels she is at right now, she is saturating at 100%! Can't get any better than that! To prepare her for surgery, the doctors are going to try to lessen her swelling by giving her lasix which is a diuretic. Depending on how she reacts to all of this, the surgeon plans to have surgery off of ECMO early next week.

We have been blessed so much by all of you throughout this process! It is so obvious to us that God is doing some amazing things. One of my friends told me that she read that there can only be one ECMO patient in Austin at a time and if it isn't available, the next place to go is San Antonio. This seemed amazing to me so I talked to the ECMO specialist about it. She confirmed that not only can there only be one ECMO patient in Austin but that the day after Caroline got on it, another patient here needed it and had to be lifeflighted to San Antonio. It is so clear that God has had his hand in every part of Caroline's life and this journey we are on.

Please pray for Caroline to be able to be successfully weaned off of ECMO (that her heart and lungs will be able to be strong enough), that she will be able to get rid of the extra fluid, and for the surgeons to know when the time is right for the surgery!

Caroline gets to have visitors with her :)!

Thank you so much for all the love and support!