June 20, 2011

Since extubation Tripp has been doing pretty well.  Today we are at 6mm distraction, when doing this today the plastic surgeon told me that even though weve added 6 mm to the length of his jaw it has probably only made about half of that amount in the back of his throat where he needs the actual room. But this is going fine otherwise.  It has made him more fussy, tylenol hasnt been helping so today he got a does of morphine by mouth this helped calm him down to where he could actually sleep. And his oxygen is now at 21% (which is room air) and 2 liters flow.  He really is doing alot better than he was before and hopefully we will know some time frame of when he will get to come home by the end of next week.  And today he weighed 11 lbs and 5 oz.  Other than that were just hanging out playing a waiting game.  If anyone is interested in seeing a picture of what his distractors look here it is.  There is a piece of tubing that connects each side together.  This was taken saturday June 18th.