7/16/09 10:15am

A new day. The night was thankfully largely uneventful with the exception of a problem with the dialysis machine. Basically the machine started detecting a clotting environment within the machine itself (not in Jenna) and had to be shut down. That's ok and sometimes part of the process we are told. They did a restart of the machine this morning, but didn't expect problems. While they didn't expect problems it was another "all hands on deck" situation as they waited through the machine start process, and monitored Jenna closely. To paint a visual on this, imagine stuffing 16 people in a small room with a large bed and a little sick girl in the middle with lots of blinking lights and things constantly going beep or alarming. Anyway all went well. We are yet again thankful for the little and not so little victories Jenna is accumulating.

The attending physician who is usually a reserved type super doc, declared this morning she thought that Jenna was "ready to get better and we just need to get out of her way". From a doc's perspective this means they will start reducing the medications that are currently supporting Jenna to the extent Jenna will let them. They will also start giving Jenna some nutrition in the form of liquid supplements through the IV. These are all good signs.

Prayer has been and continues to a big part of this experience. We really do trace the apparent turning point to our prayerful vigil 2 nights ago. In fact, seeing improvement from our perspective is expected because we sense the powerful forces at work.

So, we move forward expecting to see great things. While some new found optimism seems to be creeping into the physicians lingo, we are very aware that Jenna is still very fragile. We are still in ICU. Jenna still needs your prayers.

Thanks for all the support here and at home. Thanks for all the comments, posts, emails, text messages and calls. God bless you all.----Luke, Missy & Jenna