Sunday, February 17, 2013
Brody's nitric oxide is turned down to 3.5. They will be very slow on weening him this last bit of nitric. They cut his muscle relaxer, Rocaronium, in half. He has been awake today, opening his eyes and interacting with us. He is still very sedated, but he is moving a little bit. He can't move his head yet because they tube needs to stay still, but at least he is moving a little bit. We have been seeing quite a bit of tears today. Good thing he won't remember it, but we feel bad for him. The surgeons removed the dressing on his tummy incision today and that is doing fine. They capped his OG tube, the tube that was draining the bile from his tummy. Instead of draining the bile out, they want to see it go through his system. If his tummy doesn't grow between today and tomorrow, they will start feeding him. If his tummy gets bigger, it means he isn't ready to start moving anything through there yet. We hope he can start eating tomorrow because Brody is starting to be skin and bones. He is on 50% oxygen, a PEEP of 5, and a PIP of 24 and a rate of 20. That is probably Greek to most people, but they have turned down his ventilator support. We are heading in the right direction.
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