Big Day

Max has had a huge day today. They were able to get him weaned completely off the nitric oxide this morning, then just as his nurse was telling us that he would probably get switched over to the conventional ventilator tomorrow, the respitory therapist walked in with the vent and switched him over. That was at about 11 this morning and he has been doing amazingly well on it with all his blood gasses since coming back perfect.

They have been weaning him off the dopamine for his blood pressure and so far he has tolerated it very well. They have taken him off his epinepherine and stopped giving him his extra sedative medicines so now he is moving all over the place! You have no idea how nice it is to see our sweet boy actually moving! They are also starting to give him Lasix again so he can start peeing off all the extra fluid he has accumulated. Since he had so many tubes for the oscillating vent and nitric, they couldn't turn his head, so he has been laying on the left side of his head since Wednesday and he had quite the misshaped head from all the fluid accumulating around his scull. Now that his head has been turned, it is a normal shape again, still a little puffy but he doesn't look like such a square head!

He had an echocardiogram this morning to check the PDA in his heart and everything looked perfect.

Dr. F said we will be amazed how fast things will change now. His nurse said if he continues to improve that we could probably figure on being here at least two more weeks so that's what we are hoping for!

We also got to see his adorable face a little better. His nurse was nice enough to take his glasses off for us to snap a few pictures, he even tried opening his eyes for us but they are pretty puffy so they didn't open much. Soon, we will get to see him without anything on his face and hold him- I can't wait to be able to hold him. It was 11 days before I was able to hold Kynlie, he better not make me wait longer to hold him!

Locklyn's mini-me, with dark hair