Jereth's lung looks better today, but there is still room for improvement. He also had a period of time during the night where his heart rhythm was off. Although the problem resolved itself and he still looks good, the doctor wants to monitor his heart for a while longer.
Taking Jereth home with an air/oxygen mix will be difficult because we will need a mixer. Because pure oxygen is no longer a problem for him the cardiothoracic doctor decided to try the next 24 hours with 2 liters per minute of pure oxygen. If Jereth does well with that (which he should because he did fine with that setting in cardiac ICU) we will be one step closer to heading home.
At this point we will be taking things one day at a time (again) and the decision to release him or not will be made each morning.
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