Merry, a continued thanks for the encouraging words!

Today did not go as we had hoped. The occlusion in her lower left lung was due to coagulated blood from around her cancer tumor in the upper lobe. The entire left lung is now blocked and they attempted to remove a portion of the blockage to create an air path to her lower lobe, but were not successful in getting a pathway cleared. She will remain incubated this evening and they will try to do more clearing tomorrow morning. Not sure what can be done if they are not successful tomorrow. Her right lung is clear and functioning normally. Keeping my fingers crossed they can get a path open tomorrow!!! Even of they do get a pathway open, she will need to repeat the process over time until they can clear the blood completely from her lung.