The night was fairly uneventful, other than being a little aggravated and having to get some extra sedation, he just slept. In the last two days he hasn't been able to wake up and just lay there calmly. He is constantly aggravated by something, be it pain or just being tired of laying there. Hopefully, now that the steroids are over, he can be a little less aggravated. His ventilator settings are about the same. They turned the oxygen concentration down just a little, and turned the pressure up slightly. He had a little more urine output during the night, about fifteen cc. The dialysis is still set to leave five cc on, and is working well. we haven't spoken to the nephrologists yet, but we will see what they think about him urinating. He still has some electrolyte levels that need to be regulated, so they need him to be creating enough urine to clear his potassium and calcium. It will be much simpler without the dialysis pump hooked up, but we don't want them to unhook it too early and him get sick.

His x-rays looked about the same as yesterday, so they are still good. Lets hope he can keep up all this good, hard work, that way he can get extubated and start trying to eat next week.

Braden's birthday was yesterday. Four years old! His papa has been telling him all day long that he is the big four-o. He said it doesn't matter that he is 4.0 and not 40. We talked to him in the morning, and he sounded tired, so we didn't get a lot of reaction from him. After he got back from school, papa had got him a cake that said "the big 4.0". We wish we could have been there, and I almost drove home just so I could spend a little time with him. Seeing those pictures made us both a little homesick. His birthday party is Saturday, and we will be in town for that, but it's not really the same. The days are long up here, but hopefully we can get him home soon.