Saturday, 3/5

Story time 

Today was a nice, quiet day. It was calm enough that Martin was able to get in some story time with Dinky. While Martin read Dinky's oxygen saturation rate climbed from 90% to 98%!!! In general things went well. Dinky was very feisty today. He was moving his arms and legs more than we've ever seen him. He was also "fighting the vent" meaning he was trying to breathe a lot on his own. These are all good things...but not right now. For the time being they want him very still and letting the vent do all of the work for him so that his lungs can heal. For this reason they increased his fentanyl so he'd be more sedated. It was nice to see him so active, though. Not much else happened today. They're really just trying to let him have a quiet weekend after everything that he's been through.