Leaps and Bounds....9/24/08

Well, we have more good news to report. Today they took Gracie off the ventilator completely because she is doing so well. So she is breathing on her own. I just spent the last hour with her and she was breathing so well and was resting peacefully making sweet little baby faces, moving her mouth some. Her eyes are still closed. She is completely off the morphine but more than likely still has some in her system so she is still pretty tired. They did a chest x-ray today and an abdominal ultrasound and all came back with good reports. Your prayers for little Gracie are working! Her lungs look good and her one good kidney still looks good. The doctor says she is making lots of urine. It is looking like she may need surgery though, to get rid of the bad kidney. It seems to be keeping her blood pressure high. The doctors here are so amazing. We have been here 5 days and every day we seem to meet another one of the doctors working on her case. They know SO much and we are so glad they are taking such good care of her. We just can't help but feel like little Gracie will continue to get better. It opens your eyes to your many blessings when down the hall from us at Ronald McDonald are a boy with a cancerous brain tumor and another boy with spina bifida. We have so much to be grateful for. Tonight hopefully we will see Diana, a friend of mine from Corvallis who just happens to be a volunteer at the Ronald McDonald house.