4 Goals for the Day!

There are 4 goals for mom today...

1. Sit in a chair - PASSED!!! She was up and sitting in a chair at 10:10 AM.
2. Pass swallow test to get feeding tube out & allow her to eat real food
3. Breathing treatments
4. Dangle - sit on edge of bed and dangle arms & legs

There will be no dialysis treatment today as the past two days of treatment have gone so well they are going to take a break to begin her on a normal dialysis schedule.

She is talking more today and dad says it's loud enough to understand.

The X-Rays of the pneumonia show improvement.

Once these goals are met they will probably go ahead and transfer her to the 3rd floor, which is the cardiac wing. This way her cardiologist can monitor her easier and she can get out of the ICU.

The doctors keep saying "baby steps" but to me it looks like she's taking strides from where we were a week ago! Hallelujah!

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August 21, 2019…it was just another time of crazy happening…this time to fix the 99% blockage in your heart. I was scared. The odds were stacked against you. It was then that you held me in your arms, and comforted me instead of the other way around. You told me during that embrace that you weren’t scared of the outcome because either way you would be healed on earth or healed and in Heaven. My anxiety was so high and you held me as I cried…you did everything you could to reassure me that there was so much peace in your mind and heart and you showed me what true strength looked like. We took this picture, because I was afraid it would be the last time I would get to see you. Through my tears you comforted me, as any mother would, but that day, you showed me what compassion felt like. You fought so hard those next few days - especially the next, when you coded from losing so much blood...you fought so hard the following 6 months for everything to be the best you could make it. Little

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Mom update (Monday): the doctor's keep saying she's doing well. She is breathing on her own for a while then when it becomes too laboring they turn on the oxygen to assist her but its only around 20%. Then they turn it off again and keep going back and forth. The X-rays are not showing any difference on the pneumonia. They say that this is to be expected though with her body being immunosuppressed ... (from the heart transplant). The cardiologist continues to monitor her heart function and says it's doing great! They are trying to give her lasiks to increase her outflow (which is how to get the pneumonia out) but when they do her blood pressure goes too low so they back off. They are optimistic and say it will just take time. Their first goal is to get her stabilized enough to take out the tube. As a family, we appreciate the continued prayers and thoughts. It's been tough knowing that when she does "wake up" that it will be a new year...but as my dad so wond

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