Tough man.

Our tough little man is on just his regular meds, with occasional Tylenol. He had to be put back on oxygen today via nasal cannula, because he wasn't maintaining minimum oxygen saturation's. He gets daily "treatments" with c-pap (juts like the one used for sleep apnea) with pressurized oxygen. This helps his lungs stay inflated, clear, and wards of possible infections. Right now oxygen would be the main thing keeping us here. The nurses are pulling next to nothing from his pleaural caths, so they might pull them tomorrow. They pulled his external pacer leads, so now all he has is his cannula, and his pleaural caths, and IV and his Art line. All in all, everyone is very happy with his progress. We were told that we could go home as early as Saturday, but because of the oxygen it might be a couple days longer.