Morning!
Ellie was sleepy most of the day yesterday but got cranky at 9:00 p.m. last night. We were there to see her spike a fever, make some gagging motions (which is very hard to watch with a tube down her throat) but it was having to do with relieving herself, which she did. She then fell asleep, fever was ruled out after cultures and blood draws and skin tests and she slept great all night.
This morning she was approved to have the breathing tube taken out. At the time it was getting ready to come out she started to get aggitated (which means she was at the right stage of "wakefullness" to breathe on her own but it's a fine balance between her being like "what is this down my throat?!"). She thrashed and even managed to knock an IV out of her arm BUT it came out. She and Jeff and I then had some loving gazes with her licking her lips, making sounds, swallowing and fading off to sleep on her own.
She's still on morphine but we've been cleared to hold her in about 30 minutes when the "tamper not" period expires. Is that a hilarious phrase or what? I'm going to tell the other kids I'm on "tamper not" precautions next time I want to take a rest.
