Good work little Lo

We were able to get some quality sleep last night after calling the nurse to get a report on his night. She told us he had a great couple of hours, they were getting some fluids off and the drs were starting talks of doing clamp trials (more info below). Called again this morning to get another rundown as we started our commute to bmore and more of the same. Only updates were that he was burning thru less platelets - this has been an issue over the last few days - and they had to give him some more sedatives bc he was opening his eyes and getting more excited.

Lalo definitely looks less swollen today and all of his numbers seemed very stable. We got to witness for ourselves him opening his eyes (well really just the right one, still too much fluid on the other side based on how his head lies). But it is absolutely wonderful to finally see his eyes, which so far look very steel gray like his big brother's!

We also got it to sit in on rounds and to visit with our surgeon. Overall, very good report card for little Lalo. They want to do a clamp trial today based on how he has been responding to ecmo so far. Basically what this mean is that they clamp off the blood flow in and out of the ecmo unit, and let him try doing the work. It is just testing to see how well he would do if they were to take him off of ecmo. No guarantees, but definitely step in the right direction. Hopefully, that should be done this afternoon so please say a little prayer that it goes well.

It was good to get regrouped at home last night and Caleb was happy to see Basco - even gave her a big hug :)

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