A little better

The chest tube really helped. He had a good night with improved gas saturations. They weaned him a little more from the vent (well, back to where he was before yesterday's little setbacks). Dr. Little told us last night that his xray improved dramatically right after the tube was placed - they immediately drained about 2 oz of fluid off of the left lung, with about 130 ml total this morning. He needed that! Dr. Little warned us that there was a small amount of fluid in the right lung, so Gabriel might need a chest tube on the right if that doesn't improve. Today's xray was significantly improved on the left, as expected, with the fluid about the same on the right. No talk of a chest tube right away, but it hasn't been ruled out. Dr. Rouse was in and is going to start slowly reducing the patch over the liver and pulling the skin together today. The term "baby steps" is taking on a whole new meaning for us!! We are just thrilled to be taking these small steps. We have a few more pictures to post and will do that shortly.

I got to talk to my OB's office in Evansville today and updated them - Dr. Riley and Dr. Turnquest-Wells. I haven't mentioned them much and need to. They got the ball rolling on all of this and we can't thank them enough for their excellent care and support along the way.