No Ventilator!!

Well it has been a big couple of days!!! The steroids have been working! The doctor decided to take Cooper off the ventilator again on Thursday. They decided to give Cooper caffeine to help with the "spells". At 2:00pm they extubated him and put him on cpap. On Monday they went straight to vapotherm and decided to try him on the cpap machine this time. It seems to be working!! He was immediately upset (you would be too if you all of a sudden had air rushing up your nostrils and a crazy mask on your face!! Bless him!!) but seemed to calm down more so than last time. I held his little hand and talked to him as he adjusted to the machine. They did a blood gas to test his CO2 levels 2 hours after the change, and it actually went DOWN!! We were so excited and proud of little Cooper!! They took the ventilator out of the room! We are praying it stays out!!

Of course it snows the day they are taking him off the ventilator! We didn't want to leave him, but we didn't want to get stuck in a ditch, so we left for home. We warned the nurse that we would be calling several times throughout the night and she welcomed it. Every time we called, she had better news for us! He kept going down on his oxygen and his oxygen saturation remained high! Whew!! Until the 5am blood gas and x-ray... the CO2 levels went up quite a bit and his x-ray looked more hazy than usual. The doctors decided to watch him and repeat the blood gas at 5pm. We held his hand again and talked to him about how to exhale! It seemed to work, because at 5 the CO2 levels had gone down to an almost normal level!! Praise God!! They are going to leave him on the cpap and test again in the morning! I just called and he is doing good!!

More good news, Kevin got called back to work!!! He goes back to work on Monday. Originally he was going to have to take a job with less pay, but they called back and offered a job that makes what he made when he left! Very exciting!

All this points to God's timing! I am the WORLDS WORST at being patient! I want what I want when I want it. Does that sound spoiled?? LOL!! Is it a coincidence that Kevin gets called back when I am not working and when things are somewhat settled? God's timing is PERFECT! I am learning that a lot lately! :-) Thank you God for all the blessings the Jones family has received these past few months!