The End of Day 2

So Day 2 ended around 5 pm today. With Liam still sedated because he is still on the ventilator, Lauren and I came back home to play with Caroline, get another night of good sleep (a relative term these days given all that is on our minds), and a home-cooked meal. One of the frew negatives about Children's National Medical Center, and this is a big negative, is the cafeteria - the service is atrocious and the food is worse! To give you an idea of how bad it is, the X-Ray techs joke that they irradiate their cafeteria food before they eat it.

Liam was slightly uncomfortable when we left this evening which Lauren and I didn't like. However, they are trying to prep him for removal from the ventilator tomorrow morning so they don't want to dope him up too much and delay the process so that Liam doesn't spend another day on the ventilator. Liam needs to be awake and coherent enough to breathe on his own, and with that awareness comes some discomfort. He had three chest X-Rays today, each showing continued clearing of his lungs. We are hopeful that tomorrow is the day that he finally gets off the ventilator; breathing on his own is his ticket out of the CICU! Until then, we will hold our vigile at Liam's side and occupy our time as best we can. We're even getting a little rest in the process as you'll see in the picture.

We'll keep the updates coming tomorrow!