The baby is doing wonderful. They moved the respirator breathing down to 8, and as of publishing time, his RR (respiratory rate) is 28, which means he's putting in 20 breaths per minute on his own! That's great! The nurses are very optimistic that he will be off the respirator tomorrow morning. Optimism is a good thing. I like optimism.
He is wide awake now and has been for the last couple of hours. Unfortunately he doesn't make a sound when he cries, (which is so sad) because of the pipes in his throat. He also has a lot of fluids in his mouth so he looks like he's gagging sometimes. That's pretty scary. The nurses insist it's OK.
He is down to 0.30mg/hr of Morphine and 0.2mg/hr of Dormicum. Almost there..
We got a beautiful gift from my work today. Meet Rockwell the camel. Rockwell brought with him several boxes of chocolate. It's too bad the baby can't enjoy the chocolate. Most likely we will eat all of it for him.
Don and Sara, Maya, Dafna and Raina shlepped all the way out to the hospital to visit with us for over an hour. That was so nice. Anytime someone visits, it cheers up our mood. They brought us more chocolates (we can never have enough) and the most adorable outfit for the baby. Thank you to them.
Tonight is the sixth night of channukah. The kids are coming Tuesday, I hope we can light with them.
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