Sunday Report

Shay had yet another stable night and is off to a great start today. Shay's nurse reported that he had a "fantastic" night. You can see an immediate difference in Shay's color. The general public would probably be alarmed if they saw Shay right now but for those of us who have been here through the ordeal he really looks great. Shay has lost about half his tubes and machines. His swelling is starting to go down as well. Today they turned the vent down on Shay slightly and so far he has responded well to this. Shay still has a lot of fluid in his lungs. They are going to use a machine on Shay that vibrates his chest breaking up the mucus so that they can go in and suck some of the fluid out. They are going to begin slowly pulling Shay off his sedation medicine. We are hoping that this will happen before we leave town to get some eye movement out of him but our ultimate hope is to see Shay fully alert when we return next weekend. There are still a lot of questions that you have that we have as well. We really no nothing as far as a time line. Right now it is still day by day but at least it is no longer minute by minute. One thing I am certain of if they give us a time line I believe Shay will beat it. Before we knew how bad this was going to turn the nurse was telling Shay he would not be getting around for several days. Shay looked at his mom and said "they don't know me very well do they."  The sooner Shay gets off the vent the better. That we do know. Now that Shay is stable we will probably just start posting once a day. Shay is still very very sick but he has taken great strides this weekend and we are hopeful that he will continue making these strides. Hopefully it will be mostly good news from here out and I am looking forward to the coming days when I can pass off the editing job for this blog to Shay.