Quick update

Drew's respiration rate is at 43 breaths per minute and his blood gasses have remained excellent. Needless to say, they didn't stop the weaning at 49 last night. :-)

Dr. M. (surgeon) is going to do a needle aspiration on his hematoma/seroma at some point today. Thank goodness because if nothing else, it just looks so uncomfortable. No matter how many pain meds he's on, I would think that a large hump on your back (that you're constantly laying on) is uncomfortable.

I don't know what I was thinking when I said his left chest tube has drained over 250 cc's since last Wednesday--it's more like 1500 cc's so I went back and changed that in my previous post.

Drew was awake for us this morning and everytime Raymond and I said that we were leaving but would be back later, he would just cry. It took us a few times before we were able to leave because you just can't leave him crying. I feel bad enough leaving if he's awake.