The "H" bomb.

So, big day today. Owen had all of his chest tubes and pacer wires removed from his chest today. This was a great thing to have done. I can not even imagine how those feel and hurt under your ribs with every breath. Owen has already had his discharge echo done today so that is one less thing that will have to be done. They will continue to monitor him over night and start to slowly remove his oxygen. They have mentioned that there might be a possibility of going home tomorrow night. I have a feeling that this is not going to work out. I think that will be pushing it. So I bet we will be out of here by Sunday or Monday if all goes as planned. The H bomb stands for home if you were wondering.

Owen had a lot of wagon rides again today. It is like being on a smile parade. He just makes everyone smile as he goes down the hall. I have not seen 1 person not smile when seeing this little fatty coming down the hall. All of Owens nurses ans doctors really seem to get a kick out of him and how much he will laugh at them. There is a lot of care and compassion that goes in to taking are of Owen and us. Owen received his first bath tonight since we have been here and boy was it over due. He was the stinky kid on the unit for sure.

Owen had some visitors today. Jac and Collin came by and brought Owen a lot of new toys to play with. He loves his new toys and the two of them. Owen and I on the day shift when Chelsea is not there watch a lot of baby Einstein. The same one over and over again. He loves the little puppets and just laughs and laughs at them. I don't see the humor but he does for some reason.

The tiredness continues to linger and what makes it worse is the small little space that we are in with Owen and another pt. I have wanted on many occasions to slap people for being loud. For those of you who have kids know that naps missed is a setup for bad things to come. Poor Owen can never catch a break. If it's not one thing it's another that will wake him up. For the most part Owens neighbors recognize that he is sleeping and try to be quiet but what they don't know if they are not Owen will just keep them awake all night. We feel bad because they keep putting Older kids in the room with him and you know that they are pissed by morning, Owen never sleeps well at home and Chelsea says He has been waking up almost every hour on the hour at night. Hopefully we will be in our own beds soon and still not be sleeping well but at least we will be a home.