The biggest news, Navy is breathing tube free! ? She’ll be on high flow for a little bit to just take it slow and make sure she’s good, but she has shown she can breathe on her own and the airways are clear. Its expected that we won’t need to give her any support or any extra pieces within the next day or two. ?

As for medication, she’s completely off precedex. Morphine is at .05 on a drip line. If she tolerates it, for about 12 hours, without major withdrawal signs, she’ll be done with the morphine drip and they’ll take out the IJ in her neck. ?? Withdrawals are a beast to watch (she twitches a lot) and you can tell she’s in pain from it, but she is tolerating it as best as can be expected. If you are curious, she is also on a scheduled Tylenol, and then the adavant (?) and clonadine (?) medications. 

As for a fluids and lungs update, her right lung is forming out which is good. She was going to get her breathing tube out yesterday, but when they did the chest x-ray they noticed excess fluid had built up outside of her right lung. This is called Plural Affusion (?). We put a chest tube back in to suck out that fluid and to continually drain it out, which it is doing. We have a theory on why she has this fluid accumulating, but it hasn’t been verified yet. ?

Baby girl hasn’t pooped on her own since the surgery, so we are waiting for that ? to drop any time now.