NICU Day 6

What a whirl wind and 'roller coaster' the past few days have been!
Let me back up to Saturday, Day 4.
Myles was doing SO well post surgery that the Doctors and surgeons felt they should try to extubate him from being on the ventilator. They did so before we left for the night. We could tell he was struggling a bit to learn how to take good breaths, but they didn't seem overly concerned as we left for the night to spend time with Maelyn and Levi.  After I had put our kids to bed I called the NICU nurse to check in on Myles.
They had JUST had a bit of trouble with him breathing, and felt he was working too hard. They had to re insert his breathing tube. This was very hard news to take, especially being so far away from our baby.

The next day, Sunday, Day 5, I went alone to be with Myles while Matt went with the kids to church and our church picnic later. When I arrived Myles was resting very comfortably, and basically just recooperated and rested all day. He was able to be weaned from all but one pain med left from surgery. He was still visibly puffy in the face from all the fluids he was given during surgery. There was talk of trying to extubate again on Monday since he was rebounding so nicely.

This morning was Day 6.
We called before making the drive in ( Children's Hospital of Wisconsin is about a 40 min drive for us).
His nurse told us he had a restful night and was very stable.
When we arrived we received the news that his temperature had taken a very small rise, but just out of the range they are comfortable with. This meant they were worried about possible infections from sites from surgery. At this point he still had 2 chest tubes in. They worried about infection to those sites, as well as to his lungs. They did some blood work, and the preliminary results showed no infection. His breathing continued to be good, however.  As the day went on, his temp stayed below that marker of concern where it had been. They were able to take out one of his chest tubes, which made us very happy to see him more comfortable. During the day it was also decided to hold off on removing that breathing tube today as he clearly was showing us that he just needed a bit more time to re cooperate from surgery.
Right before we left to come home for the night, he had about an hour of wake time. He hadn't been this awake since before surgery, so this was a big treat to us as well.
The day started a bit discouraging, but we thank God for the heartfelt prayers of so many saints. We know God is at work because of many of you! Thank you so much.
Please pray for Myles as tomorrow they attempt to extubate once again.  We are naturally pretty nervous because of the results he had last attempt.  We just want the best for our little guy! We know with God, all things are possible!!
                                                           ( Myles, 6 days old)

Thank you for your love and prayers!
             ~ Missy