No Residual Effusion

A couple of things to report today. Both of them very positive.

They came in with their echo cardiogram machine shortly after lunch today. The person doing the procedure is not supposed to let on what the results are, but we got her to say something along the lines of "have a good weekend, you won't be seeing me again" instead of something like "See ya later." So, we knew that the news was good. A bit later the nurse came in to confirm that the doctor had looked at the results and said that there was "no residual effusion," that the fluid around her heart was gone now.

Also, we've been working on eating. This morning, before I got here, Jeni worked with the speech and language pathologist to give Silje a bottle. She only drank 5ml and they could hear that there was some congestion, but they couldn't really tell where. However, at 12:00 and 3:00 this afternoon, Silje drank 10ml and 15ml right down. No congestion, no problems at all. She did great. They still want to go slow with the learning process, but this was excellent progress.

So, everything is moving in the right direction.