So far our day has been about slow progress, patience and using the time that this event has created away from everyday life wisely. Jenna continues to make slow, incremental progress. Yesterday the docs goal was to drain about 1 liter of fluid from Jenna via dialysis. Our lead doc Lesley said that Jenna "slapped their hands a bit yesterday" and they had to back off the 1 liter goal and settle for a half liter of reduction. Basically, Jenna's feet and hands became cold due to loss of fluid and the coldness was appearing to seek progressively up her legs as the day wore on. While little Jenna is constantly monitored by a very high tech bank of computers, really you can tell an awful lot about someones health via common sense. In the space in which we are currently operating the key common sense rules are "pink & warm" The docs want all of Jenna to be "pink & warm". The level of fluid they had taken started to make Jenna cold. So, cold is bad and they reduced the fluid draw.
Our day stared nicely with our first trip away from Jenna's bedside since this started. Our parish, St. Agnes held a Mass in honor of Jenna. It was really special to see many of our friends and neighbors taking time out of their normal busy Saturday morning schedule to pray for our little Jenna.
Jenna's dialysis machine kicked off in the middle of the night last night and required a restart after we got back from church. As has been mentioned before the restart always has the chance to cause her blood pressure to drop significantly. Thankfully, Jenna is less sick now than the first time they did the dialysis starting procedure and would not be as affected by blood pressure drops. Long and short..it went off without a hitch..again. It really is the little victories that are the bright spots of the medical day.
The gospel for today had something to do with (I should have listened better) keeping vigil, having patience and using our time during the waiting period wisely. It is not hard to see how that is applicable in our situation. As we move from the critical care part of our journey into the healing part of our journey patience and pace will become more important. We have been told that Jenna is probably looking at another 7 days in ICU if things go well...patience and pace...then probably 2 weeks in a regular room...patience and pace. We are not real good at patience or pace. I guess Jenna will teach us how to be.
Please continue to give thanks for Jenna's continued recovery. Please continue to pray for a rapid healing for Jenna's kidneys. We will learn patience and pace if we need to....but we have seen the syllabus and won't take that class unless we have to.
Thought for the day...Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not trust in your own understanding. Agree with Him in all your ways, and He will make your paths straight.
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It was so good to see you at Mass this morning. So good to be able to hug you! Good to have so very many people gathered in prayer for Jenna and your family.
Please know that our community is "carrying you" with our prayers.
Bev & Frank & Lori
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