Bo did it! He made it for 24 hours! Yeah! I couldn't be more proud! A big thanks goes out to his nurse last night Rex, he wasn't going to let Bo fail. Bo was so excited this morning and exhausted in the same breathe. He slept the rest of the morning on me, but that is quite alright. (I still like to watch him sleep, reminds me of the sleeping Addi.) Now I do have to say with the good always come a little hiccup.
The doctors are working on some minor hiccups right now. Bo's stomach is have a few issues that they are keeping an eye on. Hopefully with medicine they will correct themselves, this is something time will have to tell. Another hiccup is Bo's vocal cords are "asleep" possibly. Today they started working with him being able to talk and Bo could barely get a whisper out (not for a lack of trying) They might need to give his vocal cords a little boost to wake them up. They do not foresee this being a permanent or long time problem, just something that needs to be corrected for Bo to function the way they want him too.
With those issues being handled and Bo being "Special" to all the doctors and the nurses, he will now have to breathe without the vent for at least 3 days before they will let him out of ICU, it was 2 days before. Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but Bo sure was disappointed. I keep reminding myself that Bo is where we all were a month ago. Every time a hiccup happened I would panic. I felt like the doctors only talked in problems, which they do, but that is alright. I will keep reminding myself and now conscious Bo of what we have accomplished (what he knows about so far) and where we still want to go. We will have these hiccups for the rest of our lives, but now we at least have the rest of our lives to deal with them.
Take care
Love
Christi, Addi and "Breathing on His Own Bo"