Three Cheers!

We are SO pleased with Ollie's progress. He had two chest x-rays overnight and both look great. He was weaned off of the bipap around 10-ish this morning. Once bipap was off, his pacifier went in! He was such a happy fellow to have his paci back. =) He's also been getting g-tube feedings since about 9am. Right now it's being done pretty slowly - just 5mL per hour. But it's still a big step.

Oliver has kept his oxygen saturations up since getting off of the bipap. If he keeps progressing this well, he'll likely get a regular room sometime this afternoon. Yay!

We've been fortunate to have good doctors, respiratory therapists, nurses, etc. Our main nurses have been Amy and Melissa. They have done a great job looking after our Ollie and looking after us, too. They even pulled a reclining chair beside Ollie's bed so that I could snooze a bit during the night. I probably managed about 3 or 4 hours of sleep last night plus an hour "nap" in the cafeteria this morning. Yes, I said the cafeteria. During rounds, patients aren't allowed any visitors. So I headed to the cafeteria around 8am for breakfast. I found a booth to eat in and it was situated where I could lean against a wall, prop my legs and feet on the bench, rest my head on the seat back, and snooze. Do you think I might have been a wee bit tired?

I leave you with two Swedish proverbs that we have found to be quite true:

"Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow."

and

"Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief."

Thank you all so very much for keeping us in your thoughts and prayers.