Ellie continues to move up, up, up along the recovery path! Today she had a great check up with the local heart doctor. Numbers are all still looking very good!
As we've gotten used to with our girl, there are still often these "caveats" or "we'll watch that" type things. Some of those today were: still fairly "wet" lungs (needs time), still a larger heart than they'd like (needs time) and a little tiny leak of a valve unrelated to the heart defect (also should close up with time). So, time is what we have, thank God.
Speaking of time, the nursing agency applied for more hours due to her recovering from surgery and we got the increase! 35 hours a week for four weeks starting tomorrow! That is the most hours we've ever had her whole little life! Shows you the support we have to make sure she continues that upward trend. The hours will start to wean after that but we hope that means we don't need it any more!
She was so tired after our three stops today we just plopped her down and plugged her in :).