07/17/2007
Chloe is a different little girl today... yesterday, they extubated her (took out the breathing tube). She was very scared and so were her parents. She had a pretty tough time breathing and needed some fast acting intervention from the PICU staff but she recovered well afterwards and was alert and comfortable about 2 hours later.
She has some wheezing that's pretty standard for the surgery she had and ventilation... she's workin on that, too.
Yesterday, I got to hold her for a while in the chair and today she got to sit in her stroller for a bit. even picked up a marker to color and tried putting a sticker in her album. She's pretty heavily medicated right now so isn't too focused but awake a lot. She's handling pain well, too.
The biggest news: she pooped this morning (on her own) and is peeing without a catheter: both signs of good neuro status. She's also much more responsive to tickles on her feet (docs say this might only be reflexive) but is also been known to move her toes by request twice.. not a reflex! Doctors are saying there is still a "significant" chance that Chloe will get back everything she's lost. We're expecting nothing less from our little miracle who continues to defy medical expectations. Thank you all for your prayers and words of support. Each day keeps getting better because of them.
