Once again, there isn't a whole lot of new news for today. Natalie still has her breathing tube in, and it looks like that won't come out until tomorrow or Friday. They want her to retain less fluid in her body before they remove it, so they've increased the amount of diuretic so she can get rid of more fluid. She is still resting a lot, as she's still under a lot of sedation. They've decreased the morphine, so hopefully she will be completely off of that by tomorrow. They will see how she handles being off of that, and go from there. It's a really slow process, and it's hard to be patient; but we're doing our best.
Again, we want to thank everyone for all of the prayers, thoughts, support, and generosity. Heidi and I are very thankful for all of the great people that God has put in our lives. We forgot to thank Gordon, in our post yesterday, for calling and checking in with us, and praying with us throughout this ordeal, and I'm sure there are others that we forgot to mention.
We will post more tomorrow; hopefully we'll have more news to share by then. This recovery has been much slower than after Natalie's first surgery in June, so hopefully things will start to progress more quickly. We just have to remember that this surgery was much more invasive than the last one (patience isn't exactly my strength).
Family Christmas in the ICU.
Her eyes opened for just a minute.
New sheets.
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