Now we wait some more

Thomas is doing well. He was in some pain when we first got to see him, but they increased his meds and he is sleeping quite comfortably now. He has a breathing tube in through his nose and a feeding tube in through his other nostri.l He has two IV's and they tried to do a PICC line, but his veins are very tiny right now -they think due to dehydration-so they couldn't thread it in. They will try again tomorrow. They want to do this since we are looking at long term medication while we are here. His blood pressure is running high, which is no surprise to me, but just to make sure all looks well they did an echocardiogram to see how his heart looks and make sure there is no thickening of the wall. We will get the results tomorrow. They also have allowed him to start having some breast milk through the NG tube, which is great. We have heard from anyone that comes in the room that this is going to be a long, and hopefully uneventful, two weeks of intubation and of him being heavily medicated. Most likely we won't be able to hold him. After the two weeks they will want to keep him here for another week and half to see how he is healing with the tube out before discharging us and following up weekly. It is going to be a long road, but at the end we expect a full recovery and many deep deep silent breaths!! 

Thomas being skeptical as they are checking that he is who we say he is before wheeling him into the OR. 

Not looking comfy, but resting silently!