It's Friday, Friday..

Have you heard the Youtube song? Well, we're singing it here! It's gonna be a great day and tomorrow is Saturday!! Right now we are waiting to eat until the surgeon comes to see Mahaela. Her chest tube has pulled out far enough that they want to just remove it today--yes! It's at risk for just falling out which could be bad. It's no longer able to drain anyway in the position that it is in, so if she would start to accumulate fluid it would require another chest tube. Her chest xray looks great. So the plan is to remove the chest tube today, start eating, watch her, have a clear xray tomorrow, pull the central line and go HOME. I don't care what time we leave here tomorrow, but I would like us to all be in our OWN BEDS tomorrow night. This is day 18 in the ICU. We have received awesome care. We have had a great majority of the nurses, so we feel as though we know them a little and they all know Mahaela. We have said many times how different this would have been in the old ICU. This new Children's Hospital just opened last summer. It is a great facility that has been completely family friendly. The other unit didn't even have a bathroom for families to use--you had to walk out of the unit and use the waiting room bathrooms. You had to sleep sitting in a chair, that they say didn't even fit in the room, or sleep in the waiting room. Here, I have had a very accomodating home away from home. OSF St. Francis can be proud. While we were in Bulgaria, I had brochures and photos of this new facility. We had just toured it. I was able to show her orphanage and physician the great facility where Mahaela would receive her care. Pray with us that going home will be our reality tomorrow. God has blessed us with many good days of Mahaela feeling great and content, without pain. We are so thankful.