Tuesday 7/27

I have been told that this in now the place to come to get updates on mom. I will try and be diligent about getting it updated everyday so you all know how she is doing.
Today was a good day. We are still in the critical stages and we still face the very real possibility of losing my mom, but today was uneventful. I believe that uneventful is good because that means that mom is maintaining and we haven't had any crisis to work through today. Her white blood cell count is still really low. It is at 1.9 and it needs to be around 10. She is also really low on platelets and has had to receive a few pints of blood.
Her blood pressure has stabled out and the good news is, she was able to maintain, her blood pressure with the medications that raises, it turned down. It's hard to be in the room with her and not watch the monitor every minute to see what her heart rate is and how her blood pressure is. She is still on a medication to keep her heart from racing and it looks like she may be on that for awhile.
They had begun the day thinking that she was going to have another round of dialysis and by 3 pm they decided that they would hold off until tomorrow morning, giving her body a bit of a break. We saw that as a good thing, but she will have dialysis tomorrow to help clean her toxins out of her blood.
The last thing they did was taking totally taken her off the sedation medication. This means that within the next couple days she will wake up out of sedation. Please pray for that process because she still has the breathing tube in and she may fight against it when she wakes up. Our prayer is that when she wakes up there is no fear in her and she is calm with the peace of God.
Please continue to pray for her white blood cell count to come up. It is so important for that count to come up because the antibiotics that they have her on to fight the infection need her body to help. It is the infection that has caused all of this. Another prayer request would be that her blood pressure stays up and her heart rate stays normal.
We are so thankful for the staff at the hospital. They have been absolutely amazing in the care of mom. The Lord has been good to provide great people in our lives and we have seen how His people are the hands and feet of Christ here on this earth. Thank you for the prayers and the words of encouragement.