Tuesday, January 3, 2012 9:24 PM, PST
Our hero
Gracie had a good day today and the doctor hopes she can take her breathing tube out tomorrow. We are all brainstorming how we are going to take care of her surgical site when she is no longer intubated as even on enough sedation to flatten an elephant she is fighting us every time we touch her.Her recovery involves "repacking" her wound every 12 hours. (Greg can't even watch, so it looks like I'm going to have "wear the surgical gloves in the family," but again whatever it takes to have our girl home.). She will also need iv antibiotics through a PICC line for a few weeks after we get home.
We are so so proud of our little fighter, so so thankful for our friends and family and forever grateful to the doctors and nurses who saved her life.
When we asked if there was anything that could have been done to prevent this from happening or if she was somehow predisposed to catching this bug, the doctor told us that is was sheer bad luck. Makes you realize how fragile and precious our life on this earth is, and we will never ever take it for granted again.
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