Hello friends and family, I have more good news on Carrie today.

There was not much that took place today, and I’m so incredibly grateful for that. They have lowered her ventilator settings once again. They are maintaining her at 55% oxygen support, and have reduced her ventilator pressure support from 18 down to 15. This is consistent with what the nurse told me yesterday, that they would attempt to lower the pressure by 2-4 points per day as Carrie tolerates it. Her oxygen saturation is remaining stable, and she is improving exactly as we had hoped and prayed.

They did put her on dialysis yesterday, and were able to take a liter of fluid out of her. They are continuing dialysis today, and will tomorrow as well. On Sunday, they will recheck her blood kidney values to evaluate how her kidneys are doing and determine if they need to continue dialysis or not. There’s a chance that they may not need to do more dialysis after Sunday, but the kidney doctor was clear that kidneys heal slowly. She may need to be on dialysis for longer than just a few days.

Jeremiah continues to do well on daily monitoring. That kid is a little trooper for sure. Today, he is at 20 weeks.

Mom has seen some great improvement in the last 24 hours. There was talk of releasing her from the hospital today, but it looks like it will more realistically be tomorrow that she gets to come home. She and Carrie both will have a long road to recovery once they get home. Please continue prayers for full healing.

I would love to have you all shower Carrie with get well cards for her when she wakes up. If you can, please send her a card of your love, support, and prayers for her. If you don’t have our mailing address, send me a private message and I will give it to you.

Today what’s on my heart is looking to the future, for Carrie and Jeremiah. Once they come home, Carrie will need months of rehabilitation before she can function normally again. I’d guess that by the time she’s really up and on her feet again, it’ll be about the time that Jeremiah is born, if not longer. And of course, I will be her primary caregiver. Please pray for God’s provision for our family as I will have to cut back my work schedule, and we will have extensive medical bills and expenses as we all get this resolved, and Carrie and Mom healed.

I am considering setting up a GoFundMe account for Carrie, and I wanted to put it out there for consideration. On one hand, I have never had to ask for financial help like that before. On the other hand, any help we received would reduce the stress of paying bills and free me up to better attend to Carrie and Jeremiah. I certainly don’t want to offend anyone, so I’m prayerfully asking for your wisdom and guidance on what to do.

I am continually so amazed at the prayers and support we’ve received from all of you. My heart hurts for Carrie, but you all have shown amazing comfort and support through your prayers and encouraging words. Carrie has a huge, massive, incredible number of people praying for her. Many churches are praying. People on all ends of this country are praying. Complete strangers are praying. People in other countries are praying. And I am so very grateful for each and every one of you who are, whether I know you or not. Here in Texas we say, y’all done showed up in a huge way. Thank you all so very much for your continued prayers and support.