Day 5: Saturday Update 11:59 pm

All quiet on the Henry Front.

Things are looking good this evening for Henry. His blood GASes look good and he is responding well to the reduction in Nitric Oxide and Oxygen.

Oxygen is 46% and will go down 2% every hour until it hits 30% where they will hold.

Nitric Oxide is at 10 ppm and in 4 hours they will reduce it to 5ppm. The new plan after that is not to step down, but rather to shut it off. If something goes wrong and his gases come back worse they can reintroduce the nitric oxide easily.

They have "water sealed" the chest tube and taken it off suction. This means that the lungs are properly taking care of any excess air in the cavity. It will remain for a few more days as a precautionary measure just in case.

We are sleeping in our bed for the first time in almost a week and while it is nerve racking to be almost 30 miles away from Henry, it is really great to be home. I was in the lounge while families were waiting for the room assignments and I couldn't help but overhear a couple of things. There were 14 families hoping to get one of the 7 rooms that night and the family that got our former room 98 had just life flighted their child to Memorial Hermann. I hope that the room treats them as well as it did us for the last two nights.

I was extremely happy to introduce Henry to his Bebe tonight and she was even more delighted to make an acquaintance with the handsome fellow.

 Bebe with Henry after her flight from Midland.

  

Goodnight and sleep tight