Four weeks

Yeah, it's been four weeks since he came down with the virus. And when you look at him, you sure can tell. He's got no butt, now. You can see his hip bones. and his skin on his legs are all loose cause all his baby fat got used up. when he was on the ecmo, they were barely feeding him -- maybe 12 ozs of formula a day -- at a level the staff referred to as survival mode. now they're feeding him about 30 ozs a day.

Isaac's been consistently doing better. The peeps are down to 5. His O2 is at 30%. I was thinking, "oh boy in a day or 2, maybe we can get that kid off the ventillator!" so I asked the doc how much longer he thought... and he said he didn't want to have to put the ventillator back in once it was out so they want to be sure he'll stay off. and he also felt that isaac was still quite weak and wanted to build up those muscles required for breathing (which had been made weaker with the paralytic medicine he's been on and i believe he may be completely off of now).

they're starting the drug weaning process very slowly since he still needs sedation. they are doing this by spacing out the doses further and by giving him a little bit less. i imagine once he's off of the ventillator they'll start the weaning more in earnest.

ok, then. have i ever mentioned how proud i am of that little boy named Isaac Maxwell Taylor? He's doing most excellent healing work, that one.