Say Bye Bye Breathing Tube (Day 34)

I woke up this morning at 5 to the nurses working with Faith.  They sprinted her at about 5:20am which means they turned off the ventilator and let her breath through the tube by herself to see how she could do on her own.  She did fabulous so the plan was maintained to remove the tube at 8am.  ENT was late coming up, but they made it and we removed her breathing tube at 8:20am.  It is just after 9am and she is already playing with her hands.  She is a little junky sounding, but doing well.  We are praying that her recovery will be amazing today and by God's grace we can get out of here tomorrow.  We are enjoying listening to her talk to us with her little voice.

Rounds just stopped by us and they are happy with Faith's progress.  We are going to get her feeds moving at 10:30am.  She is still working off the sedatives, but they did not raise them so we are still on course to wean her completely very soon.  Tylenol seems to be enough to take the edge off of any pain.  Let's get rid of these meds and get outta here.