Wednesday

It is Wednesday afternoon and Brody is still intubated. His pain medicine drip was discontinued so that he will wake up and start breathing on his own. The tube will be removed when he starts breathing over the ventilator. He will be put on a high flow cannula and then weened to his usual low flow cannula. If he is not ready to be off the ventilator, they will re-intubate him and leave the ventilator on for two days while he recovers. We knew the surgery could set his breathing back, so this is not entirely unexpected. His hernia site is swollen and he has two big cuts that are bruised up. But the hernia site is good (as expected). We'll post more as the day goes on...