Stable

Today has ended on a good note.  Skye is stable!

I went to see baby today at about 1pm.  I got to see her for about 15 minutes or so and then the ECMO team was ready to start the process.  So, then I went over to UW Hospital to see Coral.  She was still pretty tired and a little groggy, but doing fine.

ECMO is basically a heart/lung bypass machine that lets the heart and lungs rest.  The procedure to put it in took about 2.5 hours the nurse said, and went just fine.

This evening Bill wanted to see Ethan and the baby, so we dropped the kids off at my parents (thank you!!!!) and picked up Ethan and went to see Skye.  While there, the nurse explained a lot of things and even showed us what each of the lines attached to her are for.  There are soooo many tubes/lines/whatever you want to call them in her tiny little body!!  From the big ECMO line in her neck, to oxygen monitors on her kidneys and brain, to blood pressure, feeding, breathing, catheter, and many more!   We then got some dinner with Ethan and went to see Coral.  She seemed to be doing even better this evening.  She said they are going to have her try and walk this evening. She's doing about as best you can expect after having a c-section and not being able to see her baby! :(  She eagerly looked at the pictures I took from my camera.

So, meanwhile there are 2 nurses in her room at all times, the regular nurse and the ECMO nurse.  They basically are monitoring all the things and making recordings.  There is not much touching of baby because they don't really like it at this point, but they do when needed to move her, etc.  This will hopefully stay uneventful for a week or so.  Then they will start "testing" her by diminishing some of the "help" she is getting to see if her body can handle less help.  This will hopefully lead up to a surgery to repair the diaphragm and rearrange her organs at maybe around 2 weeks.

Tomorrow, I'll post the pictures I took today here on the blog.  It's late and I am tired!

Otherwise, I'll post a blog when there is something to say, you can assume that if you don't here from me on here, that everything is stable and no changes to report.

Thanks for all the prayers.  We sure can all feel them.