Can you say Roller Coaster!

Don't get too excited but the words "take her home" were just spoken amongst Maddie's plethera of doctors.

We are cautiously (and I cannot stress enough, causiously) optimistic that she could potentially come home early next week.

What needs to happen:

She is currently at 35ml/hour on her feeds. She needs to be at a minimum of 32ml/hour in order to not dehydrate. So the plan is to see if they can steadily increase her feeds and have her tolerate the increases. They don't want her riding the dehydration line. As far as the meds for withdrawal;we can administer those at home through her feed tube, provided they can ween her down to an acceptable level over the next few days (she currently has them delivered via iv).

So keep the prayers coming and your fingers crossed. She has had a pretty solid past couple of days and hopefully she continues that trend over the course of the next 2 or 3. Please keep in mind we were in a similar position at this time last Friday, not with going home but with feeling she had "made the turn" and than the bottom kind of fell out so to speak.

Nice to see her progressing and prayers being anwsered.

God Bless all of you.

Rick Ann & Maddie.