I got a call at 6:30am from our nurse saying that Jefferson woke up on his own and they quickly took the breathing tube out before he got too worked up. They let him sleep all night and kept the breathing tube in because of his obstructive sleep apnea. They thought that being on all the meds he wouldn't be able to breath very well on his own. So we waited till the morning. But he actually woke up on his own, so we quickly got dressed so we could go see him.
He looked good. He was still loopy and dopped up on all kinds of pain meds, but he looked so much better with out that breathing tube in. By then he was not on the sedation medicine and they took him off the blood pressure meds too because he was regulating it himself very well. But the oxycodone still made him very loopy and lathargic. So when you looked at him he just had a blank stair. I wanted so despirately to see that sweet smile again. After such a traumatic day yesterday, I just wanted to see his smile and to hold him and tell him everything would be ok.
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