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Day 24 - Uneventful Monday

I hope you had a good Monday. Oscar is hoping for a snow ❄️day ⛄️tomorrow for all his #TeamOscar members that are teachers.
Oscar had an uneventful Monday that was pretty restful. 💚😊He continues to have secretions which causes his O2 stats to drop. They did a culture today too to check for a bacterial infection. We have not heard the results yet. Oscar’s vent is now down to a NAVA setting of .5, back up breaths will kick on if he does not breathe after 10 seconds, and is spending almost his entire day in 21% oxygen which is room air. The plan is to extubate tomorrow after some rounds of steroids tonight incase his airway is swollen/agitated from the breathing tube. Oscar had some mild changes to his diet. He continues to be on EleCare which is now up to 24 calorie and will begin taking MCT Oil to add some additional fat to his diet. He had his CMP today and his direct bilirubin number dropped along with numbers dealing with kidney function seemed a bit better. He also had a CBC done and his platelet count looked good too.
Praise:
- Oscar had for the most part positive test findings on his blood draws.
- Oscar has tolerated the upping of calories in his formula.
- We got our Christmas 🎄 tree up on Saturday and I got to see Theodore sing in his first Christmas Program at church. It was nice to be with Brian and Theodore some this weekend, but our family felt incomplete without Oscar
Prayer Request:
- That extubation would go smoothly tomorrow for Oscar.
- That Brian and I would be overly supportive to one another emotionally through this and we would be unified when we make decisions not only for Oscar, but our family too.
#OscarStrong 💚💪🏻 #TeamOscar 👶🏻💚
One final thing I just wanted to say thank you, thank you for following Oscar’s story and thank you for loving on my family. There are many of you who want to help and we would love help we just aren’t quite sure what that looks like yet. Once we are home meals will be fabulous, we will definitely let you know. 

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