Thursday + Ellie = Good Day!!!!

Okay... last time I'm going to lazily paste Abbie's email in here for my Ellie update.  She says things oh so much better than I and I think it's neat to hear the faith and strength in her words.  She and Matt are amazing.  Ellie had a great Thursday and is headed back to the OR this afternoon to figure out what's up with her breathing.  Hopefully they can just really suction things out and take out her breathing tube and she will be good on her own!  If not, they are in there and will be able to clear her airway again like they did on the weekend or do whatever is needed.  She is full of antibiotics to clear the infection that could be part of the problem too.  Hopefully today is another great day for the Sogards!!!  Thanks thanks for your prayers!!!  Here's Abbie-
thursday night update:

ellie had a very good day today, praise the Lord! we started out the day with an echo and we could tell that the tech doing the ultrasound was very pleased with what she saw, however, we had to wait until the cardiologist talked to us around 12:30. he said that it was the right decision to delay surgery yesterday. her pda is closing with the help of some medicine and so far it hasn't put any more strain on her aorta! this has been quite a surprise to the cardiologists. so, as of now, they will continue to check her heart with an echo every couple of days and we hope to see continued improvement. she may still need surgery at some point but if the aorta continues to grow as she does, we may not. god is good! :)
the doctors also made the decision that tomorrow she will go to the OR where they will check to see if the blockage in her nasal passage has reformed, and if not, will try to extabate her in the OR. if her nose is blocked, they will go back in and "pop" the holes open again. they hope to just find a bunch of gunk in her nose and be able to clean it out. her biggest goal right now is to get off the ventilator and be breathing on her own. please pray that just the suctioning works and she can be extabated with very few problems. they also started her on another antibiotic and already tonight the secretions coming from her respiratory tract looked much better.
matt and i got to hold her tonight so it made us feel much better and we also got naps in which makes the stress less as well. thanks for praying friends and we have seen that it works. our 4 pound daughter was headed into heart surgery yesterday and now it is on hold indefinitely. hopefully, we will have another encouraging email tomorrow night in regard to her extabation and breathing at least mostly on her own. have a good night, and again, ellie, matt and i thank you for your prayers!

Yeah Ellie!  Yeah God!