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!
3 comments:
thankyou sarah for all of the updates. so thankful she's done so well today. praying for you all as she gets prepped for surgery.
God has been so good. Caroline has been a little fighter. I pray that her days and nights will be full of miracles. Be sure to rest Sarah. M.Selcer
Wow - YEA GOD! We are so thankful and excited to hear that Caroline is doing so well. It seems as if God has given her awesome doctors. She is definitely a trooper. We are so proud of her and all of you. Wish we could be closer.
I want to know how you are feeling, Sarah. You had a c-section less than a week ago and have been going strong. We are praying for you too!
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