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Yesterday’s followup was positive: Josh’s oxygen levels are good (and he’s been off since Saturday). His antobiotics were switched when the doctor agreed with JoAnn’s assessment that the bumps on Josh are related to the hives she broke out in when Josh was switched to the oral antibiotics on Saturday (she is allergic to a…

A bit of a difference, no?

Finally home…after the longest week of our lives. But well worth it. Greeted by the Barlow Girl song “Enough” (lyrics below) as we turn the corner to the house and the opening of the very first tulip outside our house (pic below later). EnoughAll of You is more than enough forAll of me for every…

…and heading out soon. So…going offline. Even Josh is glad to be going home. As Mika would say: YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Josh sounds good, and we are going to be discharged. 😉

Two really good things last night: 1. After a week of being pretty adamant about how we wanted to be involved in the decision-making and care of Joshua, the nurses that were on duty last night actually reassured us that we’d be awakened for any assessments, care, etc for Joshua through the night. That, and…

So the doctor explained that Josh is better (especially when this particular on-call doc saw him, which was Tuesday, which was probably the worst day), but that we do need to get past the oxygen barrier overnight to ensure that when he goes home, that he will be ok without needing oxygen. So he’s been…

Timeline may be back up in the air after last night, but we’ll have more info after we talk to the doctor at rounds this morning… Last night was a little rough. After Josh went 7 hours yesterday without oxygen, he couldn’t maintain the needed blood saturation level, so was placed back on at the…

…with no place to go. Unfortunately.

We had to put Joshie back on oxygen for at least a while…he just wasn’t able to keep his blood oxygen level stable where the doctor wanted it. So he’s back on what basically is a trickle, 1/8 LPM. But he did go several hours without it. On a related note, I am apparently a…