How Surreal Life Can Be

We've been by Olivia's side for the last couple hours and she's a real trooper.  Her pressures are stable (as much as they can be at this point), her Oxygen Saturations are good, ECG is stable. She's actually on quite a low dose of heart meds to help keep her blood pressure up, all the Dr's and Nurses seem happy with her condition given what she just went through. Whenever an alarm sounds on her monitors, there someone there right away to analyze and react if necessary, very impressive.

Here's this 5lb infant surrounded by 100+lbs of equipment. IV pumps, Breathing Machine, Chest Tubes, & Drains.  Her chest covered with a clear yellow plastic drape, her little heart beating just below the surface.... 

Never in a million years would Sara and I imagined ourselves in this position, it was just last Thursday afternoon when we were heading in to a 'routine' cardiac ultrasound to evaluate a mild childhood murmur.  Huh.... that seems ages ago. Everything has stopped for us while the world around us continues undaunted. We hadn't even stepped outside for close to a week until we went home for a couple of hours yesterday evening.

We'd again like to thank everyone for beimg so supportive and helping out with everything. We'd also like to thank any of our clients following this Blog for their understanding, hopefully whithin the next week the clinic schedule should return to some semblance of normal.

Thank You.