Maybe the working diagnosis is no longer a pulmonary embolus. I would think that she would have had a VQ scan by now rather than an ultrasound (echo). They must be looking at something else.
Families connected on FB seems a very positive thing. Because of some of the negative things about FB, we don't use it. It could be wonderful and in exactly the way you used it.
The neighbor sent me a picture from the hospital of his several hours old newborn. They had a place on the unit for the fathers and gave them some simple instructions to choose a pic they had taken and frame it and send it out. Probably common now. Debbie would know.