A little bumpy

This weekend has been a little bumpy for Mr. Hudson. Yesterday he had a pretty rough day. They adjusted some settings on his ventilator to try and prepare for taking him off the ventilator, but he was not ready. He spent all day yesterday in severe respiratory distress and they finally readjusted him back to a mode that gave him more assistance breathing for now. His biggest problem right now is his airway. The right bronchi (branch into lungs) is extremely narrow and he is having a lot of problems getting secretions out of the right side as well as fully expanding the right lung without quite a bit of ventilatory support. Therefore, I don't think we will be considering extubating (taking him off ventilator) him tomorrow as originally planned. Right now they are going to gradually tweek his ventilator and give him more time. He was pretty swollen yesterday as well and they readjusted his diuretics and he seems a lot more comfortable!! He had his sweet little eyes open this morning...and yesterday they were pretty much swollen shut. He's hanging tough though! Mommy has been letting him listen to baby Einstein and Jim Brickman lullabys and he seems pretty content at the moment!