Recovery Day 2 - PM Update

Today was a great day overall for Blake. Most notably we moved to the recovery floor which is a private room with a bed and a bathroom which makes the recovery process a lot more comfortable for everyone.

Today's x-rays showed that Blake's lungs were moist and there were still some air pockets in his upper chest, but after three different x-rays throughout the day they have decided that they are improving and they won't do anything. As of now they are still planning on removing his medial chest tube tomorrow and switching his plural tubes to be small bulbs instead of long bulky tubes flowing into large boxes. He is completely off of oxygen now and maintaining oxygen sats in the low to mid 90s; they say that once he is more active and moving around more his lungs will dry up and these sats will go up, but he couldn't be happier not having the nasal canula bothering him.

They have also removed morphine from his regimen and replaced it with a steady dose of a Motrin equivalent and Tylenol w/Codeine as needed for pain. This decrease in narcotics has certainly allowed him to be more alert for longer periods of time. He watched several movies and enjoyed his Uncle Cory building him a Lego Buzz Lightyear spaceship. He also is now allowed to eat anything he wants (which isn't much) but we managed to get him to eat more orange Jello, some mac and cheese and some applesauce, so it's a start. After dinner, he walked. That's right, he walked. Only from his bed to the door of his room (it hurt and wore him out), but he was a trooper and he did it.

Loving my Buzz Lightyear Spaceship, but still a little down and out

Finally, he enjoyed getting to see his sister for the first time since surgery. He's been asking about Mason everyday and although he was pretty tired and listless by the time she got here, he wouldn't stop following her with his eyes, so you could tell he was happy to see her.

We would like to say a special thanks to our families, who are always wonderful, but especially wonderful now for entertaining and taking care of Mason (and Stanley), bringing Mason to the hospital to see us, sitting with Blake so we can spend an hour outside of the hospital, and letting us stay with them. Thank you! If it wasn't for ya'll it would be much more difficult to be able to get Blake the best treatment available. We love you.

Now we are just settling into our lovely new accommodations at TCH - I think this time I'll bunk with Blake in his bed instead of trying to squeeze into the twin daybed with Bryan!