Post Op

We are with Landon now, we got to come back about two hours ago.  He's doing well, still pretty zonked out but will blink open his eyes for a second every once in a while.  They want to pull him off the respirator soon but are not ready to quite yet because there has been some "junk" in his lungs (which is to be expected following surgery but also a little bit worse from his sickness).  They also found a little bit of bacteria when they cultured the junk so they will treat him with an antibiotic to help him get rid of that.  So that's not great news but at least they can do something about it. 

All of his vitals look good-SATs are around 90 which is pretty much the highest he's ever been!  We'll wait for a few days to see where they stabilize at.  He's breathing "over" the ventilator meaning he's initiating most of the breaths on his own.  So we hope to be off of it by the end of the day but we'll just see how things go. That will be the biggest step forward he'll take today. 

It's funny that with all the stuff coming in and out of him my first thought is "he looks good".  I guess I always expect him to look completely unrecognizable.  Needless to say there will not be pictures of him until further down the recovery road.