Stephen is making good progress all the time. He is off all the medications, just gets a quick shot of a couple things as needed (like pain meds).

They took out almost all his wires and needles, just has one line in the groin- for those quick shots – and the chest tube for draining, since he is still bleeding a little bit. He is taking about a half liter of oxygen still too, but he will get weened off of that pretty soon. When they turn it completely off, he desaturates though.

I know, hospital jargon.

Vitals all look good. He just gives us a scare once in awhile when he is really mad. He thinks it’s cool to hold his breath and that bring his oxygen levels way down and sets off all the alarms. But he recovers quickly so that’s a good thing. And it’s something he has done since he was a newborn, so not much of a shock.

Yesterday he had some pedialyte and milk and sucked those down in mere minutes. Starvin’ Marvin! He hasn’t had much of an appetite other than that first meal though. Couple sips of milk here and there. We will try giving him apple sauce this afternoon.

This morning he was pretty grumpy and nothing seemed to make him feel better (even Elmo!) But he finally calmed down in daddy’s arms and has been happy and cozy there for quite some time. Until daddy needs to pee, I’m guessing!

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