Graduation Day!

It's a big day all around today. First, I am not-so-patiently waiting
for the feeding order to be entered and started. Morning rounds also
confirmed that Evan is doing to good to be in the pediatric ICU! He
was taken off of CPAP yesterday and has been weened from 10 liters
down to 3 liters currently on his high flow nasal cannula and is doing
great respiratory wise with this so far. They are still weening his
methadone and Ativan slowly and watching for withdrawl symptoms, so he
is still pretty sleepy for the majority of the day. I think his
feeding will start through his NG tube today and maybe try a bottle
tomorrow.

So with all these changes it is time for Evan to get the boot out of
the PICU and graduate to the general pediatric ward! It is bittersweet
as we have become comfortable and really trust the intensivists and
RNs that we have gotten to know, so we will really miss them! I am
sure we will meet great people upstairs as well, just another change
to get use to. I am told it is more kid friendly and that Brody will
probably love visiting, so we will have to get him here tomorrow or
Saturday.

Ben just got here with P and R so it's time to snuggle some boys :)

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