Tuesday afternoon:
Talked with Hailey and she said they took off some of the bio grain dressing covering Mike's upper extremities. The right and left arm and right shoulder look good. The bio grain (don't know if it's hyphenated, all one word or what) is a type of mesh that covered the graft sites and keeps it moist, but must be removed after a few days. The left shoulder looked a bit mushy (macerated for the medical term).

Michael was taken off the vent today and placed on a T-piece about 4 or 5pm today. He is tolerating it well. That means that he has supplemental oxygen but all of the breathing is on his own now. YaY!!!!
He has had less sedation and increased interactive actions. They are still weaning sedation meds while adding oxycodone and seroquel. His last day of zosyn (antibiotic) is tomorrow, but they will continue vancomycin (antibiotic) for awhile. He's geting extra calcium and potassium due to some of the physiological things that happen with burned patients. They have been doing a lot of face care.

I did not talk to Bette today yet because her phone minutes are precious! I trust she is settling into her hospital housing room with the very uncomfortable beds now and turning off her brain enough to get some much needed rest.
Thank you all for your kind words and prayers. I guess Michael is on many many prayer lists... Everyone I know has him on their list here in Wichita and East coast and West coast and some Germans too! thanks ever so

More later,
and so we go
JaCee