Saturday Night Update

We all went over to see Emma before dinner. Her WBC is back up again, suggesting that she still has an infection, but a second blood culture is still negative after 48 hours, so we don't know what the infection is or where. There also seems to be leakage around her ET tube, and the ventilator is alarming every few minutes. She had a two hour period this afternoon during which her oxygen levels became unstable, but things seem to have stabilized again. The plan is to insert a larger ET tube in the operating room in order to avoid the need to sedate her a second time.

Despite all this she's resting comfortably and everything else looks good. She opened her cute little eyes a few times, and occasionally stretched her legs. We're hoping that her condition remains stable and that they're able to move forward with the PDA ligation surgery in the near future in order to reduce the load on her lungs and heart.