Patience is A virtue

Everett has been off of the ECMO (life support) machine for 3 days, since Wednesday! Wuoo Whoooo!! What a relief and sure sign that the surgery went as hoped. He is still very sleepily sedated. They started feeding him breastmilk through a feeding tube yesterday. Everetts lungs need to open up a bit more before he can trial off of the ventilator.  He has been though so much. During surgery the lungs got quite a beating, the surgeons had to move them out of the way to get to the heart. Fluid built up in the lungs, and they  are suctioning quite a bit of blood and mucus out still, as well, he spiked a fever thursay morning early, which means he is fighting off a little flu bug.... Ahhh. The flu is generally occurs from being on the ventilator, little bacteria can grow, and from being on ECMO, his lungs didnt do much work for a week. So that basicly set his healing process back a week. The next big step is getting of the Vent! We are hoping he will be off by mid week, next week. Chris and I are hanging in there. Its been a true test of patience and acceptance. We do feel blessed that we see the sun shining through the clouds!