10/29/2011

Liam is healing from his surgery. There were no complications. His lung did partially colapse yesterday but has since start re-inflating. He hasn't needed morphone since the night after surgery and has only been needing 1 dose of tylanol every 12-14 hours so far. I am very proud of him for being such a strong little boy. He was moved out of PICU today. Liam has slept most the day away again but he needs to to heal. He has only woken up to cry when his diaper was dirty or he felt hungry. Crying for food is an improvement already. It was like music to my ears. He hadn't been crying fo food lately because it hurt his belly everytime he ate. They're slowly weaning him off the oxygen/ We need to completly wean him off oxygen, get full feeds going and learn how to care for the Gtube as well as put one in ourselves before he will be released. We're looking at 5 days min unless they really try to rush him out. We refuse to let them rush him out the door though. I want to know that when we take Liam home that we will be staying home for while before we have to see another hospital again. .