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After 66 Hours

Here’s the update on Catherine, after 66 hours:

• She is still at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston.
• She is currently on a ventilator to assist in her breathing. She was on a higher-grade ventilator, but they were able to take her off of that late on Saturday night. This is good. It means she is able to breathe more on her own, though she does still need some assistance.
• She is still receiving a high concentration of oxygen, as well as various drugs to help keep her comfortable, fight infections, etc.
• We haven’t been able to hold her, and we can’t touch her a whole lot, but we have certainly been able to look at her.
• We don’t know when she will be able to come home. The doctors say that she is doing well, and that she is making good progress, but they really can’t say how long she will need to be down there. They have to take things slowly to minimize the risk of setbacks, so they can’t just put her on a schedule of “change X every Y hours for Z days” and calculate when she will come home. After each change they make in their therapy, they must carefully evaluate her response and keep her stable so that she can regain strength and continue to heal. It is frustrating to be a new parent and to be unable to take her home or even to hold her. But we know that she is in capable hands and we don’t want her to come home one minute earlier than she needs in order to fully recover.
• Finally, we have some more photos from our visit to the hospital on Saturday.

Thanks to everyone for their continued prayers, thoughts, support, and concern. As Becky mentioned, you are always welcome to call or email us if you have any questions or just want to chat.