Yeah!

We had poop last night!! 5 times in 2 hrs actually!! I know he has to feel better. The poor nurse that had to change him....glad it wasn't me! She would get him cleaned up and settled in and he would go again, she would start all over again, then there he goes with another one! I started with that because I'm really too nervous to talk about what is coming up today. Just please say a prayer that Dr. Woolley's eyes are ready (he had Lasik surgery yesterday!), that Bryce is healed to perfection, that all goes well in the operating room, that his feeding tube stays in (our nurse said that if it comes out in the OR that they probably won't put it back in down there and depending on when he is to be extubated, they might leave it out altogether. I hate to think he will be hungry on top of everything else he will have to go through today), that when the time is right he can be extubated with zero problems, that he can be weaned off all the drugs easily, and that he won't be in any pain or discomfort through all of this. In my mind today starts the second part of all of this. Getting Bryce back to normal so we can go home!!

I will update after the scope as soon as I can. He is scheduled to go down at 11:00am but that could mean anytime after 11:00 really. The earlier the better because that increases the chances they will try to extubate him today.

Jerica, we still don't really know about getting a private room....the WHOLE hospital is full, kids and families were having to spend nights in the ER because there was no other place for them. I do know that he will have to be completely weaned off the ventilator and can't have drips of the morphine and versed in a regular room. He can get them as needed I believe (but they would try some lesser drugs first) but not continuously in IV form. There is a chance that if the hospital stays full, Bryce will be discharged from the PICU. If he can't get a room and is ready to go home, they would just let us go from there. We aren't expecting to get out of here before next Tues. or Wed. though, and it could be even longer. I think today might tell us more about that though.

Anthony brought our mail back with him and we had so many Christmas cards. It was great opening them and seeing all of your sweet messages! (And cute pictures!--Borden and Jack, I'm taking yours with me to the hospital so Bryce can see your smiling faces when he wakes up!)