Saturday, February 21, 2009

Final two surgeries completed!

Two more surgeries were completed today. Liana a 7 month old PDA and Andrea a 6 year old coarctation. Bothe girls are doing well and look great. Edwin is still in the ICU. He looks like he is beginning to feel better but is still not well enough to go to the floor. Judith needed another chetst tube this morning due to a lot of blood building up in her chest. This is one of the reasons we left her breathing tube in today. Another reason is that she may need a peritoneal dialysis catheter put in tomorrow if her kidneys don't start working properly. PD catheters are fairly common at home but not really something we do when we come down to Honduras. We are hoping her renal failure will improve over night so keep her in your prayers. It's still not obvious how much she was effected by the stroke hopefully it will be minimal. She does seem to be moving and responding more today so that is a good sign. We leave on Monday morning and it's going to be so hard to leave her.

We started packing today and quite a few team members have already left and another group leave tomorrow. Please keep everyone in your prayers as they travel.











1 comment:

natalie said...

i miss you guys and love you all so much. it is very weird to be home knowing you are all still there. i teared up just looking at the pictures from today. what an incredible experience to share with one another...i am so glad to hear today's cases went well and will keep judith and her sweet grandmother and dad in my thoughts and prayers. tell everyone i am sending my love to them. xoxo, natalie