Day 404

Ava had a great night and day again. They are only getting blood gasses every Monday and Thursday. She is on less than 1 liter of O2 (28%) and the respiratory therapist even went down to room air and she was satting at 100%! Praise God! They went back up to 28% because I believe she has to get orders to make that change. They also put her peep down to 8 (it was at 10), which is really great. We have been at 10 for quite some time now, at least a few months and being able to move that down is showing that Ava's lungs are growing well. We breath on a peep of 5. It's how much our lungs stay open before they expand when we breath in or the technical term is amount of pressure left in the lungs that helps keep them inflated. This is really great news and such an answer to prayer. All of you keep these prayers coming! I just happened upon finding this out today and Anthony and I were floating on air.

Ava was up from 6 am until I came in later tonight and rocked her to sleep. She is such a little party animal and doesn't want to miss a thing. She smiles at everyone and gives everyone such love.

I also called the discharge planner and I found out from the Lung Center's respiratory therapist that the discharge planner is off this week and that's why we probably don't have a meeting set up for next week. Hopefully we can get everyone together for next week Thursday or Friday so we can get Ava out when she is doing so good. The RT also said that she is so happy with how Ava is doing.

Thanking God for Ava's progress and praying that Ava comes home soon or even better is healed completely...