Doing Well

Tyler is doing well.  They started bridging him off the circuit at 9 and took him fully off about 4 hours later.  He has done well and his labs look good.  They are keeping him paralyzed to relax and not move much with his chest.  His heart meds are pretty high and they are going to leave everything how it is through the night.  If he has a good night and everything looks good, they will start to wean him tomorrow from some meds and allow him to wake up a little.  If everything continues to go well, they hope to close his chest Sunday or Monday.  It depends on the swelling.  Hopefully shortly thereafter they will be able to wean him from the ventilator.  All the nurses and doctors are telling me how sorry they were for the other night.  Tyler gave everyone in the ICU quite a scare.  Hopefully no more of that.  We are optimistic that things will go well.  He is hooked up to a lot of sensors on his brain that a neurologist will look at to see how his brain function is doing from the other day as well as being on a heart/lung machine.  Right now, everything looks good.  Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers.