Muscle Milk

Are guns legal in hospitals? If not I don't know what Uncle Dave is going to do with those things.

Day-31. Owen is starting to wake up today. He is still holding strong at this time. He has had the medication that keeps him paralyzed stopped so that is a good thing. This medication called Vec (in its short form because I do not feel like trying to spell it out) causes your mucus membranes to dry up. They have had to put a lot of eye drops in and done a lot of suctioning to the breathing tube and the nose for some very thick adult like boogers (aka lung butter). He continues to do well and he is where they expect him to be for now. As I am typing this he is starting to move around a little more now. He will still be sedated until the breathing tube is removed. If he is on track he can hopefully have this removed in the next 3 days. We have allowed for Owen to be put into research while being here so he will be in some studies to help find causes for congenital heart defects. Chelsea and I are having our blood drawn as well for genetics research in conjunction with Owen's blood. He continues to have his vent settings decreased and changed which is all good. His oxygen saturation's continue to do well. They are continuing to work on the right lung to help with the collapsed part of it. He still has a lot of swelling and they will be giving him some more lasix when they are no longer concerned with his blood pressure.

Owen had some visitors today. Uncle Dave and Aunt Wynter came to visit along with Papa Schlitz. They took us out to a good lunch at a near by restaurant for some great kabob's. We had to off load a lot of breast milk to Wynter and Dave because we are running out of room for stuff. Dave is holding all the breast milk with his pythons blazing in the picture above. We will already have a full car with everything else. The Prius does not have a lot of room to start with let alone now with a car seat waiting for the little man to be put in it. I am so looking forward to the day when we are walking down the hall with him in the carrier to put in the car. I see parents doing it everyday and know that our day is coming soon enough. We miss home and cannot wait to get back there. We had a late night last night. Papa Schlitz invited us over for some taco's. They were great. We are going to head back early today, we have no cleans clothes left so we must do laundry tonight. Hope all is well with everyone and we will keep you posted.