A day for growing

Mason's procedure (to pull off the CSF) happened yesterday at around 4:00 p.m. They ended up pulling off 16 cc of CSF (the neurosurgeon told Mason's nurse that the most they will pull is 20 cc) so I guess it was successful. Please pray that this will work and that another procedure won't be necessary. Today, he looked a little less swollen. He had lost 10 grams and still has a lot more to go since he gained over a pound of fluid when his body went into shock. He is still on extubatable settings for his vent but they are going to wait a little bit longer after his brain procedure because sometimes after this is done they will often having a little difficulty breathing. They did start feeds back I think at 1.4 cc per hour and we called this afternoon and he did have some residuals. Hopefully his body will start kicking back into gear. They continued to wean his hydrocortisone by 20% and they did give him some more lasix to try to get rid of some of that fluid. We like low key days where Mason can just rest and grow. Thank you everyone for your continued prayers for our family. We need more "growing" days!