...Stop That Wiggling!...

So waking back up has it's side effects when you wake up to tubes into your mouth, nose, head, groin, legs and ... have a catheter in. Isaac has definitely made progress on his breathing today. The doctors have continued to reduce the amount they are helping him. There is a nice little graph that shows his breaths on a monitor. The straight line spikes up when there's an inhale and then dips down when there's an exhale. The green portion is the machine doing the work and the purple portion is him. Until today, it's been all green. Now, the very beginning portion of almost all his breaths is purple. So, his brain at least now knows to take a breath; he just needs the ventilator to do most of the work. That might sound bad, but it's definitely a progress. Like I alluded to above, as they've reduced his sedation, he has started to realize that there's a bunch of junk in him. So he get's kind of mad and starts kicking and grabbing. Enter his good friend Morphine. So, they work to balance reducing the sedation and getting him breathing with not getting too worked up. They now hope they can get him off the ventilator in 2 days.

On another note, with his improvements in his breathing and lungs, they were able to move him enough to do a spinal tap. He tested negative for bacterial meningitis (but he's been on antibiotics for that for 3 days now anyway, so that doesn't necessarily tell us anything). There are a few viruses they can check for in his spinal fluid. So we'll see what that says. Overall, a much better day than yesterday.

We continue to get tons of emails and voicemails from everyone. I think we've got at least 5 states praying for him, and it's made a huge difference. The doctor told us earlier that she was surprised we've made as much progress as we have. I'm sorry if we haven't had a chance to talk with everyone yet. Thank you all for your continued prayer.