Sonia
More heart than most
Tuesday Update
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They are going to wait until tomorrow to try and take the breathing tube out. Sonia is doing OK, but they feel she needs to get some more fluid off before they try to get her off the ventilator. Her blood gasses were a little off, so they will take today to get her where she should be with meds & [...]
Moving Along
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I wanted to post a note to let everyone know Sonia is still healing, and doing okay. Jason and I are still taking it a day at a time, and not at the computer often to write.
The doctors seem pleased with Sonia and are planning to take out her remaining chest tube tomorrow. It is a very good thing [...]
Counter-Point
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UPDATE: Sonia is all closed up and they are cleaning things up. She’s OK and we’ll be in there soon.
After Shannon’s long post the other night, I felt I had to write something in response. As you can see from her last post, Shannon has settled down a bit after we talked a lot of this over with [...]
Chest Closing
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I apologize for going so long without a post. I know you are all paying close attention to this site to keep up with our baby girl, and we thank you. I am happy to report that Sonia has been doing really well. Since they took her off of ECMO they have been very pleased with her. One big thing [...]
Early Morning Rant
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I warn that the following post is very very long and very emotional. It is late, so I am aware that I am thinking only of my emotions and not of those who may be offended. If I offend you, I apologize. I am awake still at 2 am and this is what I have been thinking and writing. It makes me cry [...]
Goodbye ECMO!
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We said goodbye to the ECMO machine this morning, and please God may it be for the last time! The doctors seemed to go back and forth a few times whether Sonia was going to come off today or not, but they decided to give it a shot. We were told that they would go in and see how things went, but [...]
