Continued Healing

Ethan's pain management seems to be under control this time and he has been doing really well.  One of his IVs went interstitial again and had to be removed.  Then a few days later the other IV was giving us a lot of error readings so we opted to remove it before it could go interstitial too.  On Tuesday, he was up to his usual tricks playing with the bed and calling the nurse.

Caught in the act.

Don't mind his middle finger, he uses it like a pointer finger...he's not trying to be rude.  :) 

So he is now without IV, his oxygen was switched to room air for the humidity and his feed rate has been increased as he has tolerated.  He is still coughing but seems to be managing his cold.  He has thrown up mucous a bit which is his norm.  Thankfully, he hasn't required any oxygen during this time. 

Ethan hasn't been sleeping very well lately, but last night he fell asleep before 9 pm and was out until 5 am.  Not loving the early hour, but glad he was able to get some rest.  He was just so cute, I couldn't resist taking his picture.  :)

That just leaves his tolerance to sitting...  Yesterday was the first time we had him up in his wheelchair (which is tilted back to try and avoid him from leaning forward and damaging the new rods) and he did well for over 10 minutes.  We only put him back to bed because the physiotherapist had to leave.  Today he had two rounds in the chair.  The first was around 30 minutes and the second was about an hour.  We had to feed him so put him back into bed.  I think it was becoming a bit of work for him this afternoon but he did very well!

No crying or looks of pain.  So different from his last surgery.