Wake up

Today we worked on getting Mason to wake up. He is still so out of it from the anesthesia, pain medicine, and probably just from being sick. He had bad blood gases again last night so they had to go back up on his rate and pressure but a chest x-ray revealed it probably had to do mostly with tube placement. He has improved throughout today and is starting to initiate his own breaths so that is good. There are still periods where he lets the vent do all the work while he sleeps. He looked a little more swollen to me today (especially in his tummy). He also had to receive more platelets because they were 50 (after transfusion). I am betting he will probably need some more again tomorrow until he gets over this bump. So we are still about the same as we were yesterday. Hopefully tonight will be a better night and he will continue to wake up and keep moving in the right direction. We continue to appreciate your prayers for our family and our boys!