More. Coffee. Please.

Well, if you have been following Ryder, you already knew that there was no way surgery would be THAT easy...so the little man was cruising along - until his chest tubes got pulled.  MAD as a hatter.  So he spent the labor day weekend fussy, crying, a mess.  Stopped his feeds again, various trials of benzos, pain medications, sedatives, then benadryl (maybe itchy from pain medicine?).  There was no sleep [for any of us] for a few days.  Then it turned out Ryder's drain sites were a little too open and a piece of abdominal lining snuck out.  Poor guy.  So back to the OR on the ventilator to fix him up.  He did well but then his breathing tube was too small and the air leaked around it, so he didn't do really well on the ventilator that night so the breathing tube was taken out.  He did worse with that and no sleep again on the bipap mask.  Then the tube went back in.  NOW my lovie is sleeping peacefully since yesterday morning off and on.  Starting the whole ventilator weaning thing again.  But he is still cute as a button, and loves to hold hands and pet his musical giraffe!  We will otherwise be busy with work, preschool and a first dance class in the next week but we do get Grandma Linda for a few days and owe a huge thanks to the Bidnes for organizing some special dinner deliveries for us!!