Ella update Monday 12:00 a.m.....

Well it is midnight and I am just getting a chance to get this thing updated. Ella is doing well and not much has changed today. She looked great tonight and I even caught her yawning. She sucks on her ventilator and will stretch her little limbs when she feels the need. She has been taken off of one of her sedation meds and is slowly being taken off of the other one. She is slowly becoming alert although still clearly sedated. They have lowered her antibiotics. Her spinal tap came back good although it did have a few white blood cells and bacteria in it, doctor is not concerned. They will begin to wean her off of her seizure medication in the next day or so. She has good urine output but needs to increase to take down the internal and external swelling. She is moving around more and they are trying to get her to wake up a little to really breath and urinate on her own. They should start giving her Andrea's milk tomorrow. These are the doctors specific prayers: that the infection stays under control, that she will not have seizures while coming off of her seizure medication, starts to breath well on her own so they can remove the ventilator, starts feeding well and soon directly from Andrea. She is NOT considered life threatening anymore it is now just a matter of time to recover. He prays Ella has no long term side effect, mainly neurological. Please also pray for Andrea as she seems to have some unknown infection as well and has to stay away from Ella for 24 hours while taking antibiotics. If she is not better at that point they will admit her into the hospital to treat her. Pray she breaks her fever which has been as high as 102.4 today. She feels miserable and keeping her from her little girl only makes it worse. Pray for her healing as well as rest for Joe and Andrea. I will probably begin to send updates once a day now, so do not worry if you only see one a day. Thank you all for prayers and support- Sara