Maria's Update

I regret that I did not post Maria's progress from here rather than status updates on Facebook. So I am going to start doing that since some of the posts are longer than the status update will allow.

If you are reading this and haven't been a FB friend of the family, in short, our daughter got sick and ended up in the hospital with strep pneumonia at 7 months pregnant. Things went downhill from there and she was air lifted to Indiana University Medical Center in their MICU (medical). After stabilizing her, they delivered the baby who is doing well. Maria started to improve as well, but it has been a rollercoaster ride to get her stable enough to do everything that needs to be done. Here is the latest update for those who have been following her progress. I will continue to post to this blog...which notifies you on FB when I do.

It's been a week since Maria was admitted into the hospital in Marion...wow what a week of emotional rollercoaster! We're still reeling, but not so dizzy! This morning Maria is back down to 70% oxygen that she's getting and keeping her levels in the mid + 90's, occasionally going down to low 90's, but they had her tipped on her side, because they were doing a cardiac echogram to find out if her heart is delivering enough oxygen to the body...this is mainly to R/O (rule out) that it's not (they think it is ok but want to rule out that possibility. Even though he can't be convinced to like the Patriots, I like him the best...although there is nothing to dislike about any of them. They have been trying to get her to the point that she does ok without receiving oxygen so they can get a CT scan of the head. She can still be on the vent while they do that (I had previously thought she couldn't be, but the vent is not the issue, it's the being off the oxygen...which still confuses me come to think of it since she's been off the oxygen before. I guess it's more about reducing the sedation and still not need the oxygen. Blood pressure is fine. The ony ther problem now is that her incision is oozing quite a bit of fluid that they are pretty sure is NOT infection, but they are trying to determine what it IS. They are keeping the area dry coninually. Now for Za'Mya, she is doing great. They are going to increase her feeding today. She just has the little "noseplug" and is not receiving any oxygen, just gentle pressure to ensure that the lungs don't deflate completely at the end of each breath. I forgot to ask if she was still under the light today. Her bilirubin was a bit off yesterday, so when they transferred her from NICU at Riley children's Hospital to I.U.M.C. Special Care unit, they put her under the light. She is doing great, tho, and is kicking her tiny legs. I haven't seen arm movement yet nor have I seen her eyes, tho the nurses have very briefly. I stopped in this morning to get a report but didn't go in to see Za'Mya and I forgot to ask if she was still under the light. I'll go down to see her this afternoon.