Another good day and a bath

Oliver had another good day overall.  He's now only on "moderate" ventilator settings, and has had only a few brief episodes of low blood pressure and oxygen desaturation.  When these happened they went back up slightly on the settings, but that's typical progress - two steps forward, one step back.  He's looking a lot more normal, but still has some extra fluid that he needs to get out still.  The doctors continue to tweak all of his meds and rebalance his electrolytes as he progresses.  His morning chest x-ray showed improvement again, and the echocardiogram today showed that his pulmonary hypertension has fallen back to his "mild" baseline level. 

One unexpected step of progress was that Oliver got a bath today!  Even though he is still sedated, it must have felt good to be sat up for the first time in a week.

The nurse also had fun putting some clothes on him, which Joel and I actually didn't really like because he still has so many wires and tubes attached to him, and they'll just have to take it all off for the x-ray tomorrow morning anyway.  But it was nice of her to let him sit in a baby bouncer for a bit of a change for him. 

And at least his shirt matched the dinosaur tape around his IV.  Isn't he handsome in green?

Unfortunately the girls were still sick today, so they haven't been in to see Oliver yet, but it is so much better to have them at least in the same city as us.  We really hope they are better tomorrow to at least come visit at the hospital, even if not to Oliver's room yet. 

We've been blessed with so much help and encouragement in so many ways in the last week, thank you all so much!  We've gotten help with places to stay, food, nanny-ing for the girls, visits, toys and activities for the girls, and so many prayers.  Thank you, thank you.  We couldn't get through this without you all!

And Joel got me flowers, even though we're not allowed to take them into the PICU room.  He always knows which ones will make me smile.  Thank you, dear.