Quiet, shhh

Pin It Just as I prayed for!!! 
It has been a quiet and completely uneventful day here in Room 9!! No activity whatsoever! So quiet and peaceful that I actually took a 1.5 hour power nap this afternoon, ordered by my fabulous nurses!!! 
Ivy's little heart is doing sensational. She is showing the doctors her determination and strong will to live once again! Both her doctors and her nurses say that there is not one thing they could expect to be better at this point! Woo hoo baby girl!!
So Im keeping it short today. Just wanted you all to know how ~our~ girl is doing. This village of prayer warriors really has become our special little big family!

Ivy will remain paralyzed and sedated until her chest gets closed. Dr Baird will not be at the hospital tomorrow and he wants to be the one to close it so that will happen first thing Tuesday morning. After that, it will be just a few more days of slowly waking her up and as soon as she is awake enough to breath, we will get that ventilator out and start our road to recovery!! I can hardly wait!!!!!

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We are still here

Pin It Everything is fine in room 22 this morning. 
We had a very busy day yesterday, Ivy had one more incident where she had the staff running circles around her. This time, she needed to be suctioned and could not exhale. So she started to de-sat, everything dropped like a rock again, and in the most calm fashion I have ever seen in my life, she was rescued! 

Mommy has aged many many years this past week. And as I look at the window of our time here, Cath on the 17th that proved to be more than our little girls heart could handle, Open heart on the 19th and then again on the 21st. Today is the 30th..... I say that's not to shabby for our little hero. Considering where she was the day we arrived, what they found and what they repaired... You can not even imagine the level of my excitement, my whole families excitement, when we spoke with our cardiologist, surgeon yesterday.

 Her heart looks soooooo good!!!!! It is not a perfect heart, Ivy's heart will always be special, but it is a heart that has hope!!! 
It works!! It has been repaired correctly. All the mistakes they found... and they revealed another one yesterday as they rolled their eyes at each other and said thank you for bringing her here, have been addressed!!!! She is a living, breathing, oh so treasured miracle!!! They were so happy to see that the mitral valve regurgitation that they had hoped would show to be mild to moderate, was mild!!!! Very mild as of now!!! 
So that brings me to this morning. We are going to attempt to get Ivy off the ventilator. They will do it during rounds (she will be the last patient) so they can all gather around her bed as they drop the pressure assistance and see how she does. When they stop her drip this morning she will wake up within 30 minutes and then the vent will be pulled. I don't know that I will be back to blog before tomorrow some time, so hang tight and remember her in your prayers.


Heres some love from the little candy corn pumpkin :)

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