Sunday update

The new chest tube is doing its job! Fluids are finally coming out the right side! When they took out the line that measures pressure somewhere in the heart they also took off the tape covering Gabriel's incision. We both were pleasently surprised. It was honestly much better than we thought it would be.

They are trying to find the right mixture of sedation where he keeps breathing over the breathing tube but not so active he pulls the tube out. He has moments where he completely breaths over it but he also is very active. They dont want him to active in fear that he will pull the breathing tube out and they will have to put it back in. It is pretty rough on a little guy's throat to put a breathing tube down so they really want to do it as little as possible.

We were able to show Gabriel's nurse and the other nurse in the room our blog. They said that they dont get to see the little ones when they arent sedated. Once they are well enough they are shipped down to the step down unit. They really enjoyed seeing the pictures of Gabriel smiling and being his normal self. We enjoyed seeing out little man being himself as well. We will get back to that soon. We got a smirk out of Gabriel today... smiles will soon follow! And as everyone knows where there are smiles, giggles are on the way!

We cant wait to see Gabriel's improvements! We know there will be hurddles along the way but over all our Gabriel is going to come out of this with a smile!