Extubated!

Burke was extubated around noon today! What a wonderful thing! Look at how good he looks! He got pretty agitated afterward for awhile. He is still in between sleep and awake with all the drugs so he doesn't know what he wants nor do we. His voice is still a little horse from being intubated but it should come back soon. He did manage to get out a word which was yes. He answered a question I asked him. He is so sweet. They gave him some meds and he is now sleeping and looks really comfortable. His vitals look great and the pressures in his heart actually came down after the tube came out which all the doctors were a little confused by but can't complain.

There is some bleeding which you can see in the pictures. It is under his dressing on his chest. They took out his chest tube earlier this morning and when they were getting him ready for extubation he got a little agitated and was moving around a bit which caused the bleeding. After a chest x-ray and an ECHO to make sure it wasn't any of the lines that are sewn into his heart for monitoring purposes, they decided it was just from the chest tube. They do not want to sew another stitch to stop the bleeding because they said it would just pool inside so they are just going to watch it and change the dressing as needed. It will stop as they give him some platelets.

They also took out an IV line, his rectal probe in his bum that measured his temperature, and his urinary catheter. Luckily they did that all before they woke him up to extubate him.

That is the update for today so far. They are very pleased with his progress thus far as are we. We are still amazed with all he has been through he is doing great. We just hope and pray that sometime soon we will be able to reason with this little one as he wakes up more.He looks pretty comfy! Don't you think?