We have very exciting news from the weekend! Gavin was able to come off his ventilator! I can't even begin to explain how big of a deal this is. The picture shows the new oxygen collar he now has over his trach. On Friday night I got a call from the hospital telling me that they were turning of the breaths going in and that Gavin would only be on a small amount of oxygen and pressure. Jason and I were ecstatic! We went to the hospital on Friday night and Jason held him for over an hour. His nurse, Ellen, told us that Gavin sleeps much better after he has been held. This made us feel good. . . like we were actually able to help him in some fashion. Saturday morning we got up and went to the hospital to find that the respiratory therapist felt like Gavin was doing well enough that they were attempting a oxygen collar and taking him off the vent completely. As they were preparing the collar Gavin knocked off his vent and the respiratory therapist decided he was officially done with the vent. When they put the oxygen collar on Gavin, we all watched the monitor very closely to see if he dropped his saturated oxygen rate. We were all very relieved to find that he did very well, and has since done very well without the ventilator. He has been having a little bit of breathing problems during his feedings, and the doctors are thinking that his stomach is stretching and putting too much pressure on his lungs, diaphragm etc. I guess just a little bit more time and patience. . . We are just SO happy he is off the ventilator and we feel like we have truly seen a miracle in our little Gavin!
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So far . . . this is my favorite picture.
Yeah Yeah yeah! Such great news.:) By the way yesterday a lady called me (on accident, she though she was calling you), she has a son with a trach and some neuromuscular disease, but he's in kindergarden this year! So she want's you to call her. Kelly 423-1014. She left everything on a message, so she didn't know she had the wrong number.
Hooray for Gavin! Honestly, that is such exciting news to hear. He is such a little fighter. I wish he was at Sunrise so I could take a peek at him. Actually, I wish he was at home and then we could hang out and I could take lots of peeks at him. Any plans over the weekend. You know we're always down with dinner. Hope you're doing alright! Love ya!!
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