Tuesday Wrap Up 9:30pm

We are back at the hotel for the night. Brycen has had a pretty darn good day for a little guy that just went through such a traumatic surgery.

Last night and this morning, our concern was his blood pressure and blood gases as both were too low. He was given medicine to help control both and the medicine has slowly but surly started to work. Hour by hour, with each visit we had he started looking better and better. In fact once you get past all the tubes and wires he looks alright. He's got quite a bit of swelling in his face, especially his eyes, but that is expected. His fluid intake to output ratio last night was +250ml. This afternoon it was dead even. Tonight they expect to be in the negative range and that will start to take the swelling away.

The most surprising thing right now is that he keeps trying to overpower the ventilator. Earlier today the doctor and nurse didn't really want this happening, I think because of his blood gas levels, so they had to sedate him just a tad. But as the day went on, he still kept overpowering it. So they are going to let him "try it out tonight" and see just how much he can do on his own. He's not off of the vent, but it will do a lot less for him. This is starting to make him cranky, but that's actually what we want to see for a day or so. Then we know he's totally responsive and starting to wake up for us!

It's been a pretty good turnaround from 24 hours ago. Especially when the nurse that he had last night came over to his bed tonight while we were there and said "I really thought today was going to be a very tough day for him, it didn't look very good last night." That is promising news, and our hope and prayers will be that the next 24 are just as good.

We are off to bed. I will post tomorrow morning once we get a few visits in. Check in around the 10:00 hour unless you hear from someone on the "update posted" text message tree.

Once again, we can't thank you enough for all everyone has done for us. The prayers are working wonders and the gifts and visits are all greatly appreciated!!!!