A little traveling today...

They just took Sam downstairs to IR to try for a pic line. Hopefully they can easily get one in his arm using their equipment. He is doing well, and making great progress. After they get the pic, they will wean him off his sedation drips and trasfer him over to only methadone and ativan. He still needs to get some fluid off, but we are hoping by saturday he may be ready for extubation! This will be a huge step in the right direction for us. He has been awake (in a very medicated state) for most of the morning. They did reparalize him to take him downstairs, but that usually wears off pretty quickly. The next couple of days will be rough keeping him between wide awake and thrashing, and too medicated to breathe on his own. I will let you know later if they were successful with the pic. Here are some pictures of him from this morning. They did pull his chest tubes, so he has a big bandage across his chest.