Each day this little guy surprises me more and more. He got his drainage tube removed this morning after having a little morphine to help out with the pain. Needless to say, Switch was out for the day! Mom got some good rest as well as he slept off the drugs. Dr. Kanter said that we could be discharged as early as tomorrow or Wednesday. My vote is for Wednesday because I still have yet to successfully put in an N.G. tube. The nurses are quite happy that his Dad got him to take so well to a pacifier, now we will just need a speech and occupational therapist to come by and work with him on a bottle :) Hopefully, we won't need this N.G. tube for feeding for very long. I did give him his meds through it today and it was quite easy. The trick is to remember to pinch the tube so that if he sneezes or coughs you don't have an eruption of meds coming out of the tube. I am sure it will only take once to forget that piece of advice! I also got to carry him down to x-ray this afternoon. They also made me hold him down while getting the x-ray of his chest. Not fun for Mom. They did ask if I were pregnant...I honestly had to think about it before I answered "yeah right" (9 months of answering yes and all of a sudden it's NO...threw me off for a minute..lol). I guess they had to cover their butts though. The second x-ray of his chest came back clear of any fluid in his lungs. Switch is now down to only 100 ml of oxygen an hour.....YAY YAY YAY!! This morning, the nurses tried going from half a litre to nothing at all and he didn't like that at all. He has also started receiving bolus feeds, this means he's getting them every 3 hours at a more effective level, instead of continuous feeds. He has had a big day!!

Keep praying for our little man and thanks to all for the many hours you have already spent praying!

Love to all,

Shelley & Blake