Good morning!

Teresa just called with the morning update. He's off the vasopressin! They've also gone as low as they want to on the oscillator settings, so if he responds well, they're going to move him to a regular ventilator soon.

He's getting stronger and is moving around a bit more, so they're increasing his sedative levels, but as soon as they get him on the normal ventilator, they'll start bringing those back down. They don't want him to be awake much at all when he's on the oscillator, because a piston ramming air into your lungs 8 times a second isn't very comfortable.

They also weighed him this morning. He's a little more than 10 1/2 lbs, so you can see how much excess fluid there was in him. They're trying to get him back down to his birth weight. He peed out another 1/3 of a liter this morning, so he's on track.

Just all sorts of good news this morning! :)