On the Road to recovery

We are so grateful for all your thoughts and prayers. Claira is on a great track to recovery. She is weened off the ventilator and is now breathing on her own. She has a little oxygen but all her blood gases are coming back good. She opened her eyes this morning for the first time and was awake most of the day. She just looks at us all like what the heck did you do to me and why are you touching me. They have her on some morphine just to take the edge off of the pain. They still want to keep her responsive and moving to get all the fluid to drain from around he heart.

She's just such a little trooper and all the nurses are excited to see how well she's doing. She even ate from a bottle today and surprised us all. The speech therapist was shocked when we told her she hasn't done that for months now. So we're hoping this is the start of something new. Maybe this is what we need to be praying for now. We should be in PICU for about another day and hopefully get into our own room.

Again we're grateful for all your thoughts and prayers and keep em up. We want to come home soon.