February 27th 2017 (20:00)

Today was a good day! Arlyn had her chest closed this morning and a wound vac applied, while removing her bandage she endured a few skin tears but the nurse has dressed them to keep them nice and dry and intact. Her vital signs were wonderful throughout the day today and after the procedure then removed the paralytic and were able to also removed her NG tube because their was not drainage from it. They stopped her EPI drip and she tolerated it wonderfully. She continues to have x3 lines in place, they removed a peripheral IV today. Arlyn received another dose of lasix this evening and has handled it like a champ, lots of wet diapers. She also after the paralytic took a bit to adjust her breathing with the vent and needed bicarb a few times. This evening she was quite lethargic because of the fentenyl and phenobarbitol that was redosed in relation to get her to her therapeutic level. She has started Chest PT that looks kinds scary but when they cleaned out her chest cavity before closing they realized that her left lung was a bit collapsed and needed to be manipulated with chest PT and bag lavage suctioning. She is doing wonderful with this and will open her eyes when they preform it. She is quite the little doll and we could not have asked for a better baby to be running this marathon, she is keeping up and doing a wonderful job! We are totally in love!