An update

What a whirlwind of a day! God has been answering prayers! Last night, we went to bed thinking that Caroline would be on ECMO through the weekend and her hernia surgery would be sometime at the beginning of next week. When we woke up, the surgeon was in her room thinking that the surgery could happen as early as today because she was doing so well. For this to happen, she would need to be successfully taken off of ECMO, all her stats would need to remain high and her swelling would need to continue to go down.

By about 11 am, the best case scenario was that she would be taken off ECMO and they would let her rest throughout the weekend with surgery on Monday.

They started the trial run of taking her off ECMO at 12:22. She immediately did well on her own. The ECMO tech said he can tell within the first 30 minutes how they will do and she was doing great. About 2 hours later, they decided to cut the tubes, leaving the cannulas in, and take her completely off ECMO.

The surgeon came in again around 3:30 and decided that she looked so great that they could do the surgery in the morning. I heard the ECMO tech on the phone to someone saying, "Yeah, I went to take my break and came back to a completely different baby! It's amazing!" It is so nice to hear positive things after being inundated with scary possibilities!

We still haven't heard for sure when the surgery will be - we should know for sure within a couple of hours.

Please continue to pray for wisdom for the surgeons, for Caroline to continue to do well, and traveling mercy for all the family coming in! Please pray that Caroline will tolerate the surgery and will fight through it the way she has for the past 7 days!

Thank you all for your prayers. Please know that we feel like we are standing with an army at our sides!