Off the Ventilator!!

Yesterday (Sunday) was a great day! The big news is that they took him off the ventilator and removed the ET tube from his lungs. He is now on a CPAP machine that is giving him 35% oxygen. It was such a surprise that he was doing well enough to take him off that it really caught us off guard. We were very excited. They took him off around 5:00 yesterday, and he made it through the night without having to be put back on.



He is having to breathe on his own more, which is more work for him. As hard as it is to see him struggle to breathe, we know this is all part of the hard work he has to do to get stronger and better. He is off all the sedatives and blood pressure meds. he is so long, that when he stretches, he sometimes props his feet up on the end of the 'Giraffe Bed"( the incubator thing he is in).

Tonight we will bring Jay up to the NICU to see him.

I read a little in Psalms 8, where it says "Who is man that you are mindful of him?....yet you have given him dominion over all the works of your hands" I always took it to mean that we are caretakers over His creation, but it took a different meaning today. To see what doctors and nurses and technicians can do to a sick little boy, to make him well, is truly amazing. There is no way man would have been able to discover this knowledge on his own, without God allowing it to be known.

We never know if God will work through medicine, or doctors, or technicians, or if he will just work all by himself. But He has been good to us, and has been faithful to all the hundreds of prayers that have been offered. Thank you all.