It’s been a day or so since our last update  as there hasn’t been much to update on. 

They removed the ventilator and mom was doing well on her own breathing. We are running into some other issues:
1) she is experiencing some inflammation in her throat which is causing her oxygen levels to not sustain and causing her to have to work harder. Right now they are ready to try another anti inflammatory as well as the bi-pap machine instead of the high flow oxygen. 

2) she has had some heart concerns. We don’t know much more than they were going to monitor that more specifically.

3) she is on a lot of meds right now and she’s also got a lot of anxiety coming off of the ventilator. 

Things you can be praying for:
1) The biggest request is to have the anti-inflammatory and bi-pap work. If they have to put her back on the ventilator it is much harder to pull them off the second time around. We need a big answer to prayer here. 
2) pray for her anxiety as it is obviously a scary situation to be in.
3) Pray for our dad as he also is currently hospitalized with lesser symptoms and monitoring. He should be released in a couple of days.
4) Pray for Samantha- her induction got moved to Thursday evening. 

Thank you for your continued prayers. We will do our best to keep everyone updated here. We usually find out updates in morning and evening and unless something significant changes if may be a day or two until we know more or have new updates. 

-Audra