Drugs and Daniel

Here we are at Day Three and so far Daniel continues to be doing well. The Drs. did change his sedation medication a bit yesterday to stop Daniel from wiggling. As one of the Drs. stated on rounds "He has two speeds - asleep or trying to pull himself off the bed." Leave it to Daniel. Given this Daniel is on a low dose of muscle relaxers and in a sense is paralyzed. He is still on schedule for a scope on Monday and downsizing of his breathing tube. Sometime on Tuesday the Drs. will pull his breathing tube and Daniel will start his drug withdrawals. We hope that sometime during this time we will be able to hear Daniel cry.

If you noticed that Daniel looks a bit "puffy" you are right. Since he is on so many drugs and he is not moving, he is retaining fluids. They started today to give him a medication to relive the fluids and it appears to be working great. His fever is down and continues to show no signs of infections. (Thank God!)

All this bed rest has "added" to Daniel's crazy hair issues. Day three and it is all over the place....

Daniel's ENT Drs. pulled the drain that was in his neck this morning without any problems. His incision sights appears to be healing - still red but it is excepted. So all and all, things are moving along nicely.

Last night we went to a Cincinnati's Reds game courtesy of the hospital. The seats were fabulous and Mike taught the kids in our box about mound ball. We unfortunately got lost coming back to the hospital for an hour. Happy Day for us!!