Best Day in a While

Today was a good day for Brodie. He had good oxygen saturation all day and we even saw 100% for a quick moment. He also went down twice on his oscillator pressure and he managed that as well. The first arterial line they put in this morning worked for an hour and then quit working. They got the second one in after lunch and that seems to be working great. The one negative about today was that he has been heavily sedated most of the day. He tries to do too much on his own and that causes problems with the oscillator. Tomorrow is a big day. They told us that they would like to change him back to the conventional ventilator so that should cause us to be on edge most of the day. He is making progress today but he is also being referred to as the "sickest baby in the unit". We are getting ready to go home for a couple of hours so that we can spend some time with Bradie and then come back up here after we put him to bed. The 45 minute drive is pretty rough when you are as tired as we are. Little Brodie is worth every second and we just look forward to the day when he accompanies us on the ride home. Everyone have a great evening and thanks for everything.