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Xerxes was taken off of the respirator early this morning!!!!

He's not even on oxygen anymore!!!!

I'm extremely happy.

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I had no idea that bleach is the only thing that kills RSV.

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I just want to say, thank you to all of you who stood vigil with us, for your caring thoughts and prayers. It is so good to have our baby home!

He wasn't "himself" for awhile, I assume, because he was going through withdrawl from the opiate sedatives. The sedatives are necessary to keep intubated babies from removing their tubes (which Xerxes did one time anyway). They try to use the sedatives as sparingly as possible, and sometimes the babies go long hours without them and even lie there awake and content for hours.

But withdrawl from the sedatives brings on crankiness and restlessness. Our normally sweet-natured Xerxes just couldn't sleep very long and was keeping me up at night. The last night I spent with him in the hospital, I had to ask for help from the nurses twice so I could sleep. They held him for me.

That last day in the hospital was so lonely. While Xerxes was intubated, he had round-the-clock nurse observation and care. That last day they would check on us, but infrequently. I missed their lovely company. It was comforting and fun. We had such great nurses.

But now that I could hold him and feed him, I just couldn't justify leaving him. It just killed me to have to leave and not take him with me. It was great slowly seeing more and more tubes and wires removed over time.

Xerxes has also been ravenous since being tube-free. That has been difficult as well. But things are slowly getting back to normal. The first night especially, I watched over him with fear that he might need to be rushed to the hospital for a last deep suctioning. But he pulled through fine. He still gets rather stuffy at night, but nothing we can't handle together.

Having my mother here was such a pleasure and relief. It was sad to say goodbye to her today, but gladly both my parents will be back to visit in a week and a half.

Thank you all again. It was wonderful for both Porter and I to know that you are here and you care.

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Did they give him Synagis?

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No. I totally forgot to ask about this.

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