Friday Afternoon

Molly's condition is about the same as yesterday, but I got the chance to speak with the doctors at length today. Basically, her legs are at great risk right now. They are walking such a fine line between keeping her overall health safe and keeping her legs safe. The doctor indicated that because of the great progress earlier in the week that we have the luxury to put her organs and overall health at risk by giving her more fluids, keeping her off medications to constrict her blood vessels, etc, to keep the blood flowing to her legs. The fine line they are walking is that as the fluid builds up in her system, it makes it harder for her lungs to function and exchange oxygen, and not constricting her blood vessels let her blodd pressure to fall and so on and so on. The bottom line is this, they can allow her to get "sicker" to give as much chance of saving her legs for only so long, at some point she will get "sick" enough that they will have to go the other way and put her legs at risk. They will be doing more debreedment surgery tomorrow (saturday) morning and have already said that they will have to remove more muscle in her calfs that has died. Regardless of how much they keep focusing on saving her legs and the blood flow to them, if too much muscle is removed she will loose function of her lower legs. Right now we need prayers focused on saving her legs! As I mentioned earlier in this post, we have the luxury to let her get "sicker" but only to a point. But this means that she is still on the vent, the dialysis, and is sedated so she is back to being unresponsive for the most part. I know this feels like a step backwards, but without the amazing progress our prayers afforded her ealier in the week, the doctors would not be able to do what they are doing now for her legs. Tomorrow the surgeon will debreed her legs again and have some other disciplines in the OR with him to be an extra set of eyes to look for all options. Be praying for the doctors during the surgery, and be praying for Molly's legs that the muscles, tissue and skin begin to regain viability and can be salvaged and saved this to include her entire legs, feet, and toes, left and right side. Also, keep her lungs, liver, kidneys, and skin all over to continue to be abl to take the necessary "hits" to keep her legs healthy. And that the Doctors will make the right decisions with her overall well being and health. Keep the prayer coming! God Bless!