Lazy Saturdays:)

     Friday was one of the longest days ever!! I know I fell asleep around 9:30 and didn't wake up until 10:30 the next morning.  We spent the day in our pajamas and laid around and watched movies all day.  It was a quiet day with no visitors and we just relaxed.
Basically the problem in Bailey's heart boiled down to a small leak in a spot that was allowing the blue blood (unoxygenated) and the red blood (oxygenated) to mix.  This made her more vulnerable to clots that could then shoot up  to her brain.  We will continue to pray that this fix will get her back to her healthy self.  The last two days have really been a blessing with seeing her just back to her old self.  She is more relaxed and generally just happy.  Her oxygen saturations have improved and she just generally feels better.  She has also been anxiety attack free since Thursday!!
     So the next question is how much longer are we here.  Well that is a sticky question.  If you live close to us you know that the longest part of most of our hospital stays boil down to the coumadin.  Before we can go home, Bailey's blood has to be coagulated by a medicine called Coumadin.  She takes this everyday at home but when we go to the hospital they put her on an IV drug called heparin.  The reason for this is it works much faster and is easier to adjust.  Now we have to work on weaning her off the IV medicine to the oral medication.  This is measured by something called INR.  Bailey's INR has to be between 2.5-3.5.  This is a long process sometimes.  Right now her INR is 1.3 and we started back on the Coumadin  yesterday.  I am guessing we should be discharged by Wednesday or Thursday but we will see:)
     We had some happy visits today and a surprise for Bailey, but I will save that for tomorrow's blog post.  Thank you again for all your prayers.  It is amazing how many people are praying for us (even so many that don't even know us).  How do some people believe that God is not alive and working?  I know he has been in this hospital with us without fail.
In Christ,
Jackie