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

Well there aren't a lot of updates since yesterday. They are not doing Ella's CT brain scan today. No results on her chest x-ray at this point. Her blood culture has come back negative for 72 hours now, this doesn't mean she doesn't have the disease anymore it jus means it isn't multiplying. She is doing good and making a lot of movements. She wrinkled her nose at Joe today which he just loved. We have a few specific prayer request. One is that Andrea get better. She has had a few minor complications with her healing due to Ella not being able to nurse. Pray for her recovery. Pray for Joe and his lack of rest. He is planning to go back to work on Wednesday and needs to get plenty of rest so he can be 100% when he gets there. Prayers for Ella are that she start to urinate more. She has to produce twice as much urine as a normal baby in order for her swelling to go down. Pray for her swelling on both the inside and outside to go down as it is all a snowball effect in her recovery. She can not be taken off of the ventilator until her swelling inside goes down. We ask for prayer that her bowel's start to sound better soon so they can start feeding her Andrea's milk, which she needs to build her strength and continue to get better. Please also begin to pray that there are no long term effects. We know she will have many specialist to see until the age of 3 and we just pray she not have anything long term to see them for. We thank you all for love and support and will keep you all updated- Sara