Update

Thought I would update you all on the little boy...

Yesterday, Sunday, he had a bit of a rough day.  They did a scope to look at his airway and decide if they could safely extubate him.  While sedated they were able to obtain some bloodwork they had been unable to get thus far and his blood count was low so he received a unit of blood.  Following all this his blood pressure and heart rate decided to keep everyone on their toes by hovering very low, maybe from such an eventful day, but who knows exactly why and his urine output had also tapered down to a concerning low rate. 

When I went to work at 7pm there was a lot of commotion around him making me a bit nervous to be his careprovider overnight.  All the doctors and supervisors left me their pager numbers and then were off and it was me and him.  I am HAPPY to say that he had a great night... very few issues, a couple restless periods, but all went well. 

I left at 7am and went to bed... the plan for the day was to take him to the OR, extubate him, and if he was unable to breath on his own to place a tracheotomy.  I got up around 330pm and headed to the ward with anticipation to see what transpired in my sleep.  He was awake, sitting up in bed, mom snuggled next to him... breathing fine on his own... even on room air!  No feeding tube to his nose, no IV fluids, just a little monitor for his oxygen status which was 99%... Yay!  His mom got up to attend to his fussy little brother across the room so I got to take her snuggle spot for a few minutes too :)