T's breathing tube was removed yesterday afternoon around 4:30PM! So he no longer sounds like Darth Vader breathing in and out.
Today he's been slowly regaining consciousness, but he still can't talk and he's still in a lot of pain. He went in for an MRI this evening for a detailed scan to look for lesions, yeast, fluid, etc. The ICU doctors are stressing that something is wrong with him, but his oncology doctor is confident everything is fine. He said that it's normal for kids to take a while to talk and do other basic things when they are coming out of comas. His nurses were proud of him today though because all day he has been trying to tell them that something is wrong with him, but they couldn't figure it out. He made a lot of weird, stressed kind of noises with his throat, and he pointed to his throat, but he didn't say that it hurt. Finally, right before his MRI my mom asked if he had to spit because he started making weird noises again. He nodded yes, so she told him to spit. He started to spit up a huge glob of blood, so my dad finished pulling it out. It was a solid glob of blood about the size of a newborn's hand, according to my mom. I wasn't there for that, thank goodness. It sounds disgusting, but his nurses were proud that he was able to keep that glob out of his airway, and that he was able to spit it up on his own. Now we're just waiting for the MRI results, but I know they'll be good.
Breathing tube coming out:
He's looking better and better every day! Don't worry Chad, everything is going good here in the states.
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