"More Aggressive Treatment" - Please Continue to Pray

After the last couple of days of respiratory therapy to help clear up the secretions in the air sacs of her right lung that have caused it to partially collapse and fluid around her left lung,  Audrey's surgeon has determined that results have been too little to think that continuing on this path is the best way to go, so she has ordered more aggressive treatment.

What this means is they will be re-intubating her (put her back on a breathing tube), which will allow them to try to break up the secretions with some solution they can put in and be much more aggressive in suctioning them out to open up the right lung, and they will be placing another small chest tube to help drain the fluids on the left side.

Of course, when the doctor explained this to us, he told us of all of the risks, which we know are meant to inform and not scare, but we're human and you hear scary stuff.  So please continue to pray.  This is a "setback" to some extent.  This will result in a longer stay overall and a day or two more in the PICU.  The new treatment will be every 12 hours, and she will be at least partially sedated during this time, so we know she'll be partially sedated for another 24+ hours.

Julie & I are in complete agreement that this needs to be done and are trusting God completely through this.  Please pray for Audrey and us, and pray that this treatment works as they expect it to, that it clears up her lungs, and please pray that there are no complications involved.

Now, on to a sweet moment that happened as I was typing this post.  Julie was at the bed with Audrey. Up to this point, Audrey hadn't tried to talk since the surgery.  She held up her wrist and pointed at the IV marks, looked at Julie and said"Owww", in a long soft whisper.  Don't worry she wasn't exclaiming "ow" in pain, she was pointing to an "ow" that she saw.  

She then proceeded to try and pull every tube and wire off, partially succeeding once, so the nurse had to come in and secure a wire down with tape.  When she finished she looked at Audrey and said, "Now, hows that?".  Audrey clapped for her.