Five Days and Counting

This morning at about 3 am marked the fifth day that Ethan is in the critical care unit.  His chest x-rays show improvement and he is back to his usual self, but is still requiring a fair amount of oxygen.  Due to his oxygen requirements, we'll likely still be here for a bit longer.  He is on his 3rd IV, has continued to removed some of his leads/probes, tried to remove his nasal prongs again and they have restarted his feeds.  His sleep is still all over the map, but he does get a few hours through the night.

In the above photos: the first one was taken on Friday afternoon when he started smiling at me and being more aware; the second photo was taken on Saturday - he was looking for me, smiling and giggling at me and playing tickle games; the final photo was taken yesterday when he was playing with his iPad and watching TV.

A couple of days ago he also tested positive for c-difficile again so has additional antibiotics on board to combat that.  A usual course to fight c-difficile would be to stop the antibiotics he was on, but since his chest is still quite weak, the felt it was better to continue the course and add the c-difficile fighting antibiotic.

We still do not have any news on his upcoming surgery but do know that he will likely have to be home and healthy for 4-6 weeks before they will be willing to mess with his airway to sedate him for traction...