Not A Lot Of News

Lynnea managed to make it through the day without any major episodes of instability. Things are still very tenuous, but for the moment she is holding her own. They did an echocardiogram earlier today, and unfortunately, the results showed that her heart function is a bit worse than it was on her last echo. This is bad news, especially considering that she is now on some heavy hitting medications to improve her heart function, and yet, even with the medications, her function is quite poor. There is no plan for where we go from here at this time. Before anymore decisions are made, we have to wait and see how she is when she wakes up from all of this, which could take a few more days at least. The question that needs to be answered is how much brain damage she suffered during her cardiac arrest. Even though there are small indicators that give us some hope that she might be relatively OK, it is still far too soon to know anything for sure. For now, they are intentionally inducing hypothermia because some research suggests that this might help protect the brain and other organs from permanent damage while the body recovers. Within the next day or so I believe they plan on doing a head CT to see what that shows. Once we have a better idea of where she is at from a neurological standpoint, we will be able to make some decisions regarding the plan about what we might do for her. She needs many prayers as she continues to fight to keep her heart going, and as she recovers from last night's cardiac arrest.