Update 1/21/2011 3:30pm From Momma Jill

I love posting updates when we have positive progress to report! Miss Morgan is improving little by little daily! Today there has been some major positive things going on...

First of all, they moved her off of the Oscillator and on to the conventional ventilator. This is huge! They also took her off of the Nitrogen also. They also removed her chest tube(the one in her side) that was pulling out any air that might have accumalated around the outside of her lungs. She has adjusted to all of these changes very well. Her blood gas lab(that they have been checking frequently) is the best it has been.

She still has the feeding tube, but is at full feeds!! She is getting 17mL of Similac Sensitive every hour at 24 calories per ounce.

They did go ahead a give her another blood transfusion, because they continue to draw so many labs daily and being sick, she isn't able to produce as much blood as she needs. All of the transfusions she has received have been from the same donor and from the same unit of blood.

They have had to give her any paralytic since yesterday morning!! This means that she is awake(although they assured me she is in NO PAIN) and she is moving around alot. We are still cautioned as to not get her too excited because she starts coughing and dropping her stats.

We are still anxiously awaiting the results from the Immune analysis labs that we are supposed to find out today about. Hopefully, this might provide us with a better understanding as to what caused the infection....Or it could not also.

We are continually thankful for the many blessings God has provided through this experience. Thank you so much for all of your prayers. We are forever grateful.

We love you and thank you all,

Cody, Jill, Wyatt, and Miss Morgan