Stable through the Night

Miss Elliott on ECMO day 1

Brian and I checked up on Elli during the night, and she was staying pretty much the same, still having issues with low blood pressures, it seems that she really likes a high volume of blood runing through the ECMO machine, so they did end up giving her another unit of platelets, a unit of blood and a bolus of Albumin to keep her blood pressure in the acceptable range. She is still having blood pressure issues this morning, but not as bad as yesterday when we were here.

Yesterday the doctors decided to reduce Elli's sedation medications because she was pretty limp, they decreased both her Morphine and Versed drips down to 30 from 50, and we really noticed it this morning when we got here. She even had her eyes peeked open just a little bit and was able to give our fingers a little squeeze. The doctors have not yet made rounds, but we are anxious to hear if they have any new ideas of why Elli's blood pressures continue to remain on the lower end.

We are attempting to figure out how all of this NICU business works, Brian continues to call me a chicken because I get too nervous to ask some questions, like if we can use a laptop, but I finally did, and they said it was fine, so we will be doing a better job of keeping the blog page up to date, the last 48 hours have been so hectic it was hard to find the time to think let alone type on the blog page. I am hoping that I can get some good pictures today when the lights are on, because she is just so darn cute I can hardly resist. Thanks for all the comments, prayers, and words of encrouragment, we are hanging in there, and so is Elli!