From Susie

Guess who opened his eyes for about ten minutes this morning?!!!!! Ryan is down to a rate of only 10 breaths per minute given off by the vent and the rest of his breaths he is doing on his own. We are on the right road to recovery!!! It makes me so happy to be able to write these accomplishments on his behalf, considering how scared we all were just a few short days ago. They plan on keeping him intubated for the next couple of days and during that time pretty knocked out. Ryan is coming back and fighting his breathing treatments, in fact this afternoon he got so upset that the nurse ended up having to bag him a couple of different times. The doctors would like to seem him breathing anywhere in between 24 to 45 breaths per minute and when he is calm he does it, but the minute you start to mess with him or talk to loud around him he breaths up into the 70’s and 80’s, that where those nasty paralytics come in. I think someone needs to remind Ryan that he is the youngest of six children and he better get use to noise and people bugging him!! I want to thank all of you again for your prayers and support, they have really made a huge difference. A special thanks to Doni and her website, Sarah for the visits and goodies, and to everyone else for there calls and emails. I feel really blessed to know that I have such good friends and family that I can count on. And yes, I promise I will get back to all of my unanswered emails as soon as my life slows down. As for now, I will continue to let all of you know at the same time whats going on through these updates.

Susie….remember when Tara couldn’t even talk anywhere near Ty’s isolette or he would desat? Your nightly summaries are bringing back many memories! So glad our little Ryan is fighting through this. Remind him that it takes a pretty tough kid to be the youngest of six!!!