Good and Bad Days

Gage without any oxygen and clothes!

Sorry for no update yesterday. Gage had a not so good day yesterday. He is doing great as far as not needing any oxygen. They took him completely off the oxygen yesterday and he did great. However he didn't sleep hardly at all and was very fussy all day yesterday, which is part of the withdrawals. It was so sad, because he had this weak little whisper of a cry and nothing I could do would console him. He would fall asleep for brief periods in my arms. Then, I would realize I hadn't moved out of the glider in hours and would lay him down in his crib. Inevitably he would wake back up and start crying.

Finally about midnight last night he passed out. He slept very deep until 9:00AM this morning. However, because he slept so deep, his oxygen levels went down and his alarms sounded all night. So, they had to give some blow by oxygen to help keep his oxygen levels up.

Anyway, Jason is going to say that I went on and on with every detail. So instead of boring you I will sum it up. We are hoping to go home soon, but the doctor says that he has to be able to go without oxygen for 24 hours until we can go. They took out his central line today making the only attachment his oximeter probe. They will send him home on meds for the withdrawal that they anticipate lasting 1-2 weeks. YEahhhhh!!! J/K Hopefully in the next couple days we will be blogging from our home computer.