Friday morning update.

Sorry it has been a little while since we updated. Hard to find time between the trips back and forth, spending time up there, time here with the girls, and everything else.

I haven't called this morning yet for an update so I will just try to catch up from the last post on Wednesday. That night he decided to extubate his ventilator tube. He coughed so hard and used his tongue to pull the tube out of his lungs. NOT a good idea buddy. They had to give him morphine and put him under to get the tube back in. Kind of a big step backwards because then they had to turn all the oxygen and pressure dials back up....   When I checked in with the nurse on Thursday they had been keep some meds going in him to make him stay relaxed and in my opinion "out of it" so that he didn't mess with the tubes again. I asked them to not give him another dose until I got up there to watch him when he woke up. We got there about 4:00 just as he was waking up for a diaper change and tube feeding. He opened his eyes and looked around and was very calm and alert while I talked to him. In my opinion again, he does a little better when they aren't giving him so many meds...  

As we sat with him last night they were able to start turning down the levels again. When we left last night the oxygen was all the way down to 20% which is as low as this machine goes. The pressure levels (which keep his lungs inflated while they are full of mucus ) had gone from 15 to 12 and they were hoping to get him down to 10 by morning. Once it gets to 8 and he holds there, they will attempt to take him off the machine. So today may hold some nice changes for us. We will cross our fingers and keep praying.

Back to update on some other things that I have been being questioned on, during the first day or so we discovered that there was a little tear in his lungs called a pneumothorax. Some air escaped from his lungs and was collecting outside his lungs keeping the lung compressed. They were able to pull that air out of the chest cavity and tear sealed itself off and is no longer leaking.

 Chest x rays have been showing small improvements. The tops of his lungs are mostly clear now and the bottoms are still kind of mucus-y but starting to clear.  Again we hope to see more improvements there.

We did give him a 'spit' bath last night. He didn't like it at all. The only time he calmed down was when I was scrubbing his head. but then when I dried it he got mad again. What a little spitfire.

No recent pictures but I promise to take more today.

Thanks for all the phone calls and comments and love sent our way. This has been really tough but I am looking forward to finally being able to hold this baby soon.