Early Morning

Tomorrow morning between 7:30 and 8 they will start the broncostomy...Or whatever its called. They will be intubating her because of the size of her belly. It just makes it too hard to regular her breathing while she is under anesthesia. So they will put in the intubations tube and then snake a small tube with a camera on the end down into her lungs. Once there they will squirt in a bit of salt water and then suck it back into the tube. Only about 35% gets sucked back up the rest is supposed to be absorbed by the lungs and dissolved into the blood stream. The fear with her is that it will instead irritate the lungs more and thus make her breathing worse. If that is the case then she will stay intubated (and in the ICU) for a few days until she is breathing better.

Pray that the procedure goes smoothly, that her lungs don't get irritated, and that there is not bleeding of the esophogus on the way down. If there is they will stop the procedure and thus not know exactly what kind of pneumonia she has and not be able to treat it properly.

On a good note...our doc stopped in and said he was suprised (after looking at her x-ray) how good she was doing and how little oxygen she needed. Always nice to give the doc a pleasent suprise.

Thanks to Kathy for the great dinner that feed everyone and for hanging out all night. Thanks to Corey for stopping by and for the reassuring words...good to hear from a doctor. To my parents for hoping in the car the second they heard what was going on. To Bill and Cynthia for being here and to Grace and Pete for their visit.