Continuing to Wean

Today Lynnea continued to tolerate both her ventilator wean and narcotics wean. Her vent rate is now down to 12, and she continues to do well. We are still hoping to attempt extubation later this week, or early next week. She also had some physical therapy today -- she sat in a tumbleform chair for a little while, and handled that fine. This morning Dr. St. Louis finally decided to take the stitches out of her chest incision that were put in nearly three weeks ago when she had her chest exploration. She didn't enjoy this at all, but managed to tolerate it without any major problems (we gave her bumps of both pain and sedation meds before hand). She was in a pleasant mood all day, but still very tired much of the time.