July 20th, 2012 at 22:30
Thank you for those who have already read the information about Harper and how our newly renovated family started the week off. Here are a couple updates of Harper's progress from the past couples of days...
Each day has gone really well and each morning and evening shows how much Harper is improving and battling the odds. She is getting the point where the odds are on her side and we can all breath a little easier along with her.
Tuesday (her birth day) was miraculous within itself and we were all ecstatic that Harper fought her way through the traumatic delivery, resuscitation and small procedures to put her drainage tubes in. She was stable by that evening and we could all relax a little more.
Wednesday was a great day because throughout the day Harper's pulse/ox continued to strengthen, her skin color became more 'normal' (showed that she was well oxygenated), and they began to reduce the amount of work that the ventilator was doing. The doctors reduced the pressure and pace of the ventilator and also the percentage of oxygen that it was outputting. This was important because she needed to get closer to "air" in terms of oxygen before they could take it off of her. By Wednesday evening Harper was breathing 21% oxygen (air) from the ventilator and was ready to get rid of it!
Also, the amount of fluid that Harper was expunging from her chest cavity was decreasing. This was a good sign and showed that she might be healing internally already!
Harper had another great night on Wednesday and was breathing so well that the doctors took out her ventilator on Thursday morning! She was weened to a C-pap, but we did get the chance to see her without anything on her face for the first time! Karen and I could not have been happier to see her little face and have the chance to finally squish her cheeks! During the day on Thursday and Friday, the doctors even reduced the pressure that the C-pap was exerting, which is just one more step toward her just breathing on her own completely.
As for the fluid, there is still a decrease with each interval that is checked. This is looking good and the doctors said that it could be around a 80-90% chance that she does in fact heal herself. Only time will tell and we are all staying confident that this Little Wilson will keep fighting and heal herself right up!
Friday was a fairly quiet day - but Karen and I got the chance to be a little more hands on with her. We cleaned her face a little and her hair/head. Karen got the change the first of many diapers that we will be changing. And we continue to get to see her more often without anything on obstructing her cute little pumpkin face.
Karen and I get to stay in the NICU's family hospitality room until Monday. Hopefully, a little longer than that, but we will be either in there or on the couch in Harper's room!
Thanks again to all of our family and friends for visiting, calling, texting, emailing and sending nothing but positive vibes our way. I know that Harper is in great hands here, but the love that surrounds her is definitely having an impact and we appreciate all that you have done for us.
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