PICU Day 8

Jojo got a little upset tonight. Not because we're still in PICU or on the flipside, because we might go home in the next two days. Not because we're about to take his bipap off again for cough assist session or because we couldn't understand what he was saying. He was sad because Lacey Brown was voted off the American Idol. Jojo liked Lacey's hair and her voice and believed like we all did, that there were three or four other people who deserved to be voted off before her. Oh well, Jojo and Lacey will survive.

We are planning to be home before the weekend. If the new g-tube comes in tomorrow and gets placed on Jojo, we may decide to leave tomorrow. The pulmonologist, however, talked about seeing us on Friday. He said Jojo did great on his sleep study, and that the bipap setting we have right now is good. We were just concerned about his CO2 level on bipap, but the recent capillary blood gas test result was within normal limits. Jojo told his Daddy tonight that he's ready to go home. We're just going to have to slowly wean him off the bipap during the day to help him return to his baseline. Hopefully, our next update will be from home.