Friday evening

So this post won't be too long. We are all so tired and emotionally spent tonight that we don't have energy to deal with much else.  Today was a really bad day. The plan this morning was to wean her off her sedatives and pain Meds so they could wake her up enough to take her off the ventilator. It was a hopeful plan that didn't happen. They did wean her off the meds, but she never woke up. She's been very unresponsive. They were concerned that she'd had a stroke so she has been having different kinds of brain scans to see what was the matter. The good news is that she has not had a stroke, but she does have edema (swelling) on her brain. It is most likely a result of all the trauma she has suffered this week. As I write this she is hooked up to an EGG. They are hoping to pinpoint the area of concern and get more answers. The trauma dr. said he was not surprised this happened after all she's been through. The only thing we can do now is wait and see when she decides to wake up. Although this is one of the scariest things we have ever been through, we are feeling more peaceful about things tonight. We are just praying and believing that our beautiful girl will suddenly open her big brown eyes and give us that smile we are all missing. Please pray for that too.