We just extubated a few minutes ago, and so far he is doing good. He is still very sleepy and out of it, but he is breathing fine on his own. Hopefully he will be more awake soon, he needs some time for medicine from last night and this morning to wear off. He does look pretty rough...he has big dark circles around his eyes, and is very dry and sunken in (had to keep him very dry so his lungs didnt get wet, but should back off on some diuretics tonight), and he just looks out of it. This should continue to get better with time, also if he does well today without the breathing tube we can probably start feeds tonight which will only give him more energy. They give him nutrition through his iv, but he is definitely needing some good calories.
Thank you for praying for Georgiana, she is stable, but has a long way to go. Last update I heard this morning is her lungs are very wet from all the fluid (medicine, blood, etc) she had to get to keep her other levels up, so breathing is not easy. It will be a balancing act now of getting fluid off her lungs, but keeping her other numbers and pressures up and stable.
Here is a picture of Sam from a few minutes ago.
Here is the sign I made for his bed yesterday while he was sleeping :)
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