Smilin'

Yeah, I caught him smiling today. The docs are giving him less sedation because they believe it might have been interfering with his innate drive to breathe on his own. So as a result he's the most alert I have seen him since before he got really sick. His eyes were looking all around. They still have that completely stoned look. But hey, he's still on enough drugs to knock a sober adult completely out. He definitely was responding to his environment and that was really fun to see.

I called the nurse a few moments ago and she said he threw up today. Perhaps he got a little motion sickness, who knows... maybe the stress of being conscious got to him.

Anyway, the goal now is to get him to breathe on his own. The settings on the vent are way down, low enough for him to be off. The vent is on a support setting which will allow him to breathe should he want to. And of course, we want him to. Duh!!! So that's what we're waiting for. There's this screen on the ventillator that shows this graph that indicates who's doing the breathing. It shows black when the vent does the breathing, and grey if Isaac is breathing.

So that's where we are at. i have a feeling isaac might need to get used to being conscious. what a concept. i suppose that could be applied to most of us...... but that's completely off-topic, now isn't it???

righto... that's it for now. as per usual... this mama's cheering her boy on.