Wednesday, May 25, 2011

NICU day 36

Jillian's group of doctors decided that she does need to go in for a PDA ligation. This is a surgical procedure in which the surgeon will make an incision under her arm in the ribcage go in and find the artery and clamp it off. In her it is a large PDA so the surgeon said that this artery will be larger than her aorta. The surgeon will perform the surgery with Jillian on the jet vent, she said she has done this before it's not the route she would choose but she is comfortable with it. Luckily the surgeon doing the procedure is Jillian's surgeon that has seen her almost everyday since birth for her O so she knows Jillian well and Mark and I have developed a relationship with her and trust her very much. They are also going to do the surgery in the NICU, they feel because she is so touchy that if they move her down to the OR they will be starting the surgery with her not at her best (she desats quickly when you mess with her). This is a common procedure that preemies require, the doctors main concerns with Jillian is that postoperative they usually require a more support on the vent and we don't have much space because she is already on high settings. Also the night before last her jet vent malfunctioned and she lost all the pressures going to her lungs causing her right lung to collapse. This has make her oxygen needs go up. Luckily her vent setting did not have to. Please pray for the surgeons hands, Jillian to go through surgery easily and for her to heal quickly without additional vent support.

I know God can heal my daughter and I trust Him with her. I also know God works in mysterious ways and so I am not going to look at how scary the picture looks today I am going to choose to look up to Jesus and pray with confidence that my daughter is going to be fine and this is God's way of healing her.

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