Recovering

James is continuing his recovery. He was pretty much asleep/sedated while we were there this afternoon, but they're going down on his dose of fentenyl to try to wean him off. They're also giving him Ativan as needed. This is a drug to reduce anxiety, and I expect it will be especially helpful in the "in between" stage where he's waking up more from the painkillers, but still needs the ventilator. He does not like having the ventilator tube down his throat and tends to kind of fight it, so maybe the Ativan will reduce that a bit.

The highlights of Matthew's day were throwing up his morning meal (he has the regular baby spit-up fairly frequently, but has only thrown up large amounts a couple of times -- but of course they're always the times when he's had his vitamins, which stain!) and wearing a new outfit with cute little lions on the feet.

PS. Melanie was not supposed to publish the picture of me wearing the Gators t-shirt. But I decided that since this might make nurse J. smile, it was OK.