Sunday, June 28, 2009

The Update I have been Promising.

I am so sorry that it has taken me so long to finally sit and update. I have really been having a hard time staying focused on top of keeping my family itself updated.
I will just cut to the chase and tell you all that things are not good. In the last 2 weeks Jenn has been fighting a very severe Staph infection that left her relaying on machines to keep her alive. They put her into an induced coma to keep her stabilized until the infection was treated and gone however now every time they try and remove the drugs inducing the coma, her heart goes haywire and for a few days did nothing but try and crash every few hours. Her heart did manage to get through the last 24 hours off of the coma inducing drugs and they tested her lungs today. She was in respiratory arrest as of the 20th which is why she is back on the vent and they weren't too worried up until this week. She has had spouts in the past with "falling asleep" on her own and not waking up or breathing well for weeks and she would come around but today they tested her lungs and at this point her left lung is too damaged and her right lung is too weak to support life so they had to boost the vent back to 100%. They did tell us that she was trying to take baby breaths when they were testing but they were too short to actually gain anything. They added a steroid to her antibiotics to help with her lungs to see if anything improves over the next week and are otherwise still keeping a close eye on her heart. She has yet to respond in any way since they stopped inducing the coma but we were told that she is still epically critical so it might not happen any time soon. At first they were wanting to give Jenn the marrow needed to help support the healing of her bones this week but with the current conditions everything is pushed back until further notice. There needs to be a major improvement before they can move forward however they will remove this set of casts on her arm and legs as planned to make sure everything underneath is still where they would like it. They are keeping a close eye on her legs still as well. So far so good from what we here in that area though. Otherwise there still isn't a whole lot I am can think to tell anyone else. I very well may have forgotten a few things so I apologize now. I will try and keep up more but it has been a difficult time.
Thank you all for your prayers and support.

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