More dialysis….surgery

Hello Family and Friends,

It’s been a better day today. The dialysis went for 3 hours again today and they pulled 3 more liters of water from her body. Her face and body is getting back to a normal look. They may do the dialysis on Saturday, they will make that call in the morning.

Jennifer had surgery at 3pm today to remove a sample of her lung tissue from the left lung. She now has a drain tube on her left side to drain any fluid around the lungs. Again, everything went well and we should get some answers on Saturday and next week on what type of pneumonia she has.

They took a chest x-ray at 6pm and it looked better. Things are moving in the right direction today. God is looking after her!!!! They put her back on the more powerful ventilator at 7pm tonight (Friday). They feel that it will expand her lungs more and let them get better, faster.

Her creatine is at 1.4 tonight and the white cells are at 6000.

We keep praying for Jennifer and thanks for all your prayers!

Thanks
Tim

PS…. Mary and I want to say “GOOD LUCK” to all the TNT friends for the Motive ½ marathon this Sunday, here in Austin. Mary and I plan to be back for next years run. Mary wanted to say…………….. GO TEAM GO!!!!!!!! Remember to read Jennifer’s poem before the race.

“The Mountain”

When the task at hand is a mountain in front of you, it may seem too hard to climb. But you don’t have to climb it all at once — just one step at a time. Take one small step…and one small step…then another…and you find…the task at hand that was a mountain in front of you … is a mountain you have climbed……..

note: the above entry is a copy originally posted on our ‘Caring Bridge’ website.