Please Pray

Wow, I don't really know where to start. We talked with the doctor this morning. He said that they pulled the ECMO really low this morning while doing an echo (ultrasound) on her heart, and her heart did really well (in the doctors words, she did surprisingly well) - it held it's pressure and the right ventricle looks like it has improved, but they're still concerned about a leaking valve that could potentially put too much blood into her lungs... but she was holding her own. So they just took her down to the OR to potentially take her off the ECMO. They'll essentially let her work on her own for about an hour at least to see how she does to see if they can take her off. It's looking like she'll still need a transplant at this point, but being off ECMO would give her more waiting time than if she was on it. And obviously, once she's off ECMO, she'll hopefully be able to hold her own a little while to wait. The other issue of taking her off ECMO is getting a veinus line. She'll still need dialasis for her kidneys, and they have to have a veinus line for that. At this point, though, he said she's at a really good place for a transplant. If/when they take her off ECMO it's possible to put her back on in the future if she needs it but very difficult.
It definitely seems like the Lord has brought some improvement (thanks for praying!!!), but we know she's still His and continue to pray to keep our hearts and hands open before Him. She'll be down in the OR for a while now, but we'll try to post later today when we see what happens. Thanks for praying with us - much love, the Joneses