Sept. 4, 2006

9:30 A.M. This morning Stacey is still sleeping, they went ahead and and took most of the ventalater away from her she is breathing on her own with only 10% assentance, which they say hopefully by this afternoon they will have her all on her own. They are going to try and take most of her tubes out today they say everything is lookinhg good. They are hopping they more they get her to due as far as breathing, and taking more of the pain medication away that it will hopefully trigger her to wake up. I'm really hopping so. But they said if no response that they will go in and do a MRI to see if they can kinda see whats going on. But for right now it the waiting game, I will try and update again this evening. 5:00 p.m. Stacey is off of the ventillator. They have her on a trak coller which is a little cup that covers the end of the trak that they run oxygen into. All the breathing is her own. The nurses said that they will probably hook the ventillator up during the night so that she can rest but that in the morning they will take it back off. If she tolerates it well they will start lowering the oxygen content on the coller until she is breathing room air on her own. The chest tubes don't seem to be draining anymore but they want to leave them in for another day or two. They lowered her pain medicine and she is still resting comfortably. Hopefully they can stop it all together tomarrow. Her condition is still considered critical but if all goes well in the next few days and with your continued prayers we will hopefully see that change to stable. At the bottom of this posting (directly below this paragraph) you will see the word "comment" in the light blue. If you click on it you can leave a comment for us or Stacey we would appreciate to hear from you.