text message!

i just got a text message... -from my daughter!

you can imagine my elation!

what a feeling (and wonder) to be able to communicate with her


her first text said 'Sox won again'

she's talking about last night's game

i told her about game 7 tonight and how happy i was

that she had texted me


this will be great if we can continue this...

more teeth pulling

again this morning

it's like prisoner interrogation

-getting some information about my daughter

from the nurses that are taking care of her


i did find out that she has NO FEVER this morning

(so that's good)

and that she rested well last night


i know that pretty soon

i'll be able to communuicate with her

then we'll get the happy news

because she's always so positive

god love her

the set back

this evening her nurse did say that since thursday

she's been more awake and aware

but they're draining lots of blood from her lungs

but the doctors are pretty sure that it's 'leftover'

from the surgery (TWO WEEKS AGO?) and not anything new


this nurse was great, he said she looks good

and is young and strong and will do fine


they are treating her with antibotics and her

fever is off and on and doesn't seem too too bad

also the cultures look negative for any other infections

so, over all...


keep saying your prayers

and thanks!!

pnew word: pnenumonia!

her mom just wrote me


"She still has a very high fever from the pnenumonia

but the good news is that there isn't a problem

around the lungs, just inside."


pnenumonia IN the lungs?


keep praying!

fully aware

it's like pulling teeth

getting information about my only daughter from these nurses

and her mom hasn't updated me since i last saw her

four days ago

but

her nurse told me this morning that she's sittin' up in a chair

(outta that bed, that's great!!)

and that this morning she's been 'fully aware'

i like that 'cuz she's been so zoned for so long


so her nurse said she's doing fine

that's all we can go with

that's good enough for me


i told the nurse to tell acacia that her dad called

i hope that's enough for her


THE NEXT STEP

in a long process of baby steps

-which she's taken so many so far

the next step is to take that breathing tube out of her throat

and have her breathing on her own

that would be a very big step

-say your prayers

feeding time!

it's not a feed bag

but they have taken out the feeding tube from her nose

and have put a 'feeding unit' next to her bed

that sounds great 'cuz she's getting too skinny


they also did a CT scan today

waiting for results

her nurse said she's in much better spirits

and get this

she texted my this morning

it was a little weird

said 'hey, back in la'

but i was thrilled

texted her back but no reply

but, god willing we can start texting soon

that's all i know

phone updates

i called her nurse this morning

she said she's doing good

been off her breathing machine for two hours

and doing OK

going to have a four hour dialysis treatment today


yes i'm back here in long beach


her and her mom thought that she's doing well enough

for me to go home


it was hard for me to leave

but the fact that she has left so many of her machines behind

and that she's doing so much better

and that the nurses say she's doing fantastic

and that she wants to deal with this with her mom

and that her mom is an unbelievable mom and caregiver


i left


i'll get updates all the time

and i'll post new updates when things change


thank you again so much for your concern, love and prayers


may almighty god bless us all