Out of ICU!

Just wanted to let you all know that Cordelia was moved out of ICU today!

Not only that but Cliff and Dani said that she was smiling ALL DAY LONG! Way more smiles than they have EVER seen from her before.

I've gotta say, that's probably one of the most incredible things I've heard in a couple of months!!! I can only imagine how much better she must be feeling to be finally smiling spontaneously.

The doctors joked that a little girl who was smiling that much was not allowed to be in ICU.

So they are back on the 4th floor where they were before Cordelia's surgery and have had a lot of visits from the doctors and nurses who were caring for her before the surgery who are SO excited to see her doing so well now.

While not of huge concern at this point, her blood work today did show some slight "rejection" (when the body rejects the organ), but we were told that this is perfectly normal, that it helps the doctors to fine tune her medications and that it actually helps her body to build up strength/tolerance to the organ.

She was also showing a small amount of blockage in the bile ducts...also not out of the ordinary, but something we could pray that goes away and does not get worse.

Her pain also seems to be subsiding somewhat...in typical Cliff and Dani fashion they joked that their baby gets morphine for her teething pain! (She has been teething over the last couple of weeks!)

Cliff and Dani sounded good...tired, but good. Dani said she is starting to be able to eat more without feeling nauseous, so that is a very good thing.

All good things to be thankful and full of praises for!