Back in the saddle again

Hey everyone. Jackson is back to making huge amounts of progress. He appears to be recovering from surgery very well. His swelling is almost totally gone. Thursday they had to increase his ventilator support a little. He was retaining so much fluid he got a little bit of fluid build up around his left lung, this caused his blood gases to not be very good, so they increased his ventilator support. After a couple of days on the increased support they were able to start weaning down again, and we are now back to our low settings. They have also started pressure support trials again. They did 6 hours yesterday and 12 hours today. The plan is to go to full time pressure support trials tomorrow. After he is on that for a couple of days they will extubate, if he continues to do well. So possibly he will be extubated on Thursday or Friday. He is also back up to his normal amount for feedings. He is taking 76ml every 3 hours through his feeding tube. He is not throwing up, so I guess the fundo is working. They are talking about taking the central line out Wednesday. Everyone is seems optimistic that the extubation will work this time. I feel in my heart that he only failed because his hernia recurred, and he will do great this time. Please keep our family, as well as all the other CDH families in your thoughts and prayers.
Love
Adam and Kimberly

PS- Jackson wants to say happy birthday to his great granddaddy who turned 87 on July 3rd.
Love Jackson