One to go

The nurses are removing Jake's arterial IV today. That leaves his feeding tube as the only device still plugged into his body. While it's good to get the IV out of him, it also means that once a day they will have to poke his foot or hand to get a small blood sample to check the different gas levels.

Other than that, Jake is slowly getting better and stronger each day. He's been holding stable for the past few days and his lungs are to the point where they are able to slowly start decreasing the amount of oxygen that they are pumping into the hood. He has also lost most of his water weight, so we should start seeing his actual weight begin to increase. He's still got a ways to go. He's at 45% oxygen right now, and room oxygen is around 21%.

Here are a few more videos that we took today. In the first video, he appears to smile (I've heard this is just gas, but Michele refuses to accept that as an explanation). In the second video we see him show a range of expressions, and we get to see his little tongue!

Click on the photos to launch the Yahoo Briefcase where you can play or save the videos.