Friday

Well there wasn't too much to report yesterday. They were trying to let her rest. They ended up putting her on dialysis yesterday evening. She was starting to get pretty puffy by the end of the day. The dialysis started at 8pm, and she looks a lot better today as it's gotten a lot of the fluid off her. The good news is she made the transition onto dialysis very well and responded well to it.
They did an echo on her heart this morning to see how she looked. One of her valves is a little leaky, and they wanted to check on that as it's one of the indicators of her readiness to come off the heart lung machine. The pediatric cardiologist is unsure of her readiness to come off the heart/lung machine today, but they'll let her surgeon look at the echo as well. So at this point we're not sure if she'll go down to the OR this afternoon or not. She may need to rest a bit more before they try to take her off. I'll try to let you know later what we hear.