Today has got to be one of the most stressful days so far.

We didn't take Chance off of the ventilator last night, he just wasn't ready to breathe on his own yet. This morning, we started trying again and we have been trying ever since. They started weaning him off of the sedation medicine this morning, and completely stopped it at 3:30 pm. He has been breathing on his own (with the ventilator in) since about 4:00 but he keeps stopping breathing. He has to go at least 1 hour of continuous breathing without us telling him to breath and that hasn't happened yet. We are still hopeful that it will happen sometime tonight. He also only has tylenol for pain medicine right now because they can't give any other stuff until the ventilator tube is out.

He was moved to another room earlier today too. That was scary because he was hooked up to portable machines and happened to be awake during this time.

They make us leave at 7:00 am and pm for 1 hour while the staff changes. Tonight, I got back to the house and Deanna had made ham steak, fried/sliced potatoes, and macaroni and cheese. We had a real home cooked meal. It was awesome. When Aaron and Maggie dropped Deanna off today, they also dropped off all of the food that they hadn't eaten this week at the beach. Thanks a bunch for that!!

Hopefully by the next time I post something, Chance will be completely breathing on his own. I'll talk to you later.










Here is a picture of Chance in his new bedroom. Can you tell that he loves the Steelers? You can notice him all decked out on surgery day in Steelers gear as well.

Here are a couple of other pictures. They are what Chance looked like 1 day after surgery. If you don't think you can handle looking them, please don't click on them.