Julie update

Ok well it's been 12 days since we arrived at the hospital. 11 since surgery. Julie is doing great! Every day there are ups and downs. Funny stories, joyful stories, sad stories but overall just a process of Gods hands at work on my friends body. Still and always will be incredible to think some incredible person willingly gave of their lungs to save another life and those sponges are inside Julie giving her new breath!! We are in the midst of needing prayer!!! The doctor came in this morning and said there still appears to be air leaking from her chest. Right side again, the side that had the last chest tube left in. You can feel bubbles in her neck. So they will be taking her for another xray sometime today and looking to see if it's bad enough to need to put some very small tubes in the front of her chest to get the air out of her chest so her lungs will fully expand. He said the bottom of her lungs have not expanded yet and they want to get them
opened up. I don't believe it's serious but needs to be out. Julie does NOT! want any tubes put back inside her so she asks you to pray that not be neccessary! She got sick this morning so they are giving her antinausea medicine now. They are also checking other ways for bacteria and she is tired and feeling a little nervous about tubes. They are keeping an eye on her heart rate cause it went up last night for no known reason. They did an EKG but everything seems to be fine. Xray just came so I wil post again when I know more.