What a long day

I got up early and went to Children's hospital today because Ian was supposed to be transferred this morning. The mediflight team must have had a busy day because they didn't show up until almost 6:30pm to take him back to his old nicu. He's back "home" and the nurses were all smiles, saying "good to see you back". He was sooooooooooo fussy it was insane. He just kept getting mad and screaming and throwin his arms around, raisin his body off the bed. They increased his pain med back to what it was at the other hospital to see if that would help.

This morning (at children's), i arrived and he was mad and screaming and i could actually hear noises from his screams and asked hte nurse if his tube was still in place because he shouldn't be making noises. She said it was fine, then he started gagging occasionally, then his color turned grayish and his oxygen levels began falling into the 50's... the ditzy nurse finally paid some attention and after another nurse walked in, she said "maybe he's extubated" and a whole crew came in and reintubated him. While they were getting the stuff together to reintubate him, the NP was bagging him and when she'd lift it off, he was screaming and crying and i actually finally got to hear him cry. Sad to say it was nice to hear (not under such circumstances, but still nice).

So all in all, he's back "home" to his old nicu and hopefully will settle in nicely. The mediflight team gave him a cute certificate saying he's a "flight partner" (even though he actually went by ground in an ambulance with the mediflight staff on board) lol.