Great News!

5:20 pm

David is doing great! Thank you for continuing to pray!

There is nothing new to report on the hemmoraging. His head circumference is measured every other day, and he's due to have it measured again tomorrow night. They want to be sure his brain is growing, but they don't want it to grow too fast. If it grows too fast, that most likely means more blood is building up in the ventricles. Please keep praying that the swelling will be alleviated without intervention.

We have some praise reports!
At 10:00 a.m., David was weaned completely off the nitric oxide without any problems. Yay, God! They switched him to a regular ventilator and off the oscillator. Since then, they've been able to reduce his oxygen saturation by 20%, which is great because he's doing more on his own. It's set so that he's guaranteed 50 breaths a minute; any more than that is up to him. He's resting more comfortably with it, and his blood pressure is great.

If, over the next couple days, David stays as stable as he has been all day on the new ventilator, Susan and John will get to hold him as early as this weekend. This is such exciting news! Susan was really hoping to hold him by Christmas. What an awesome Christmas present it would be to get to hold him. Please pray that he remains stable.

More exciting news . . . Susan got to brush his hair today! Woo Hoo! Thank you, God, for all the awesome testimonies of your goodness. We cry out for MORE!