Nurses in Training

Truman is now 3 weeks old. Time goes by in a blurr. No really it is pretty much a blurr - the days blend together, you can't really see straight sometimes due to lack of sleep or tears in your eyes, but time waits for no one.

We were a little disappointed that they couldn't take the breathing tube out yesterday, but they are lowering the settings to help Truman remember to breathe on his own. It is a fine balance because the pain medication he is on suppresses the drive to breathe. He did come off one of his blood pressure medications because his blood pressure dropped too low, we will see if he has to go back on it. 

He really is remarkable how well he puts up with everything and the nurses all love him. they were explaining to us that he may be on some medications when we get to take him home and they will show us how to give those if he needs them. We were kind of overwhelmed by all the things they said we may or may not have to do when he gets home. As far as when he gets to come home they still haven't given us a time frame. It is more just when he gets off some of the stuff he needs right now and passes some tests. A few of the things they said we will need to know are - Child CPR and Choking Rescues, administering oral medication, possibly - administering injection medication (like an insulin type shot), possibly putting in a feeding tube. Hopefully we won't have to be trained on all those things. When they tell you all this stuff at once it is daunting to say the least, but when you think about it they will train you on it over days - hopefully not all at once.

So he is just recovering well. Day by day his swelling goes down and he looks more like himself and he is up to 9 cc's of milk an hour. Hopefully today they can take out his last chest drain and get him off the respirator.