Milo's Naked Neck!!

We got to the hospital yesterday afternoon around 5:15 pm and Milo was immediately spoiled by the nurses. In fact I didn't see him for the next 10 minutes :0) he came back will all kinds of new toys. He did really well playing in the room last night but was not about to go to sleep. I would think he was asleep and try to put on his nasal cannula but he would wake right up, we fought over this for a couple of hours. Finally about 12:15am he gave up and fell into a sleep deep enough that I could successfully get his oxygen on him. Of course it came off at some point but his oxygen saturations were high enough that we didn't bother putting it back on him :0) He did really well with his trach capped, in fact I think he might have been better than without it capped. He slept in until just after 8:00 when we heard someone in the hall say that transport was on their way up get him for his bronch. Kind of a rude way to wake up but we went down stairs bed head and all. His bronch went really well, and he was back in the recovery room in about 30 minutes. They finally let us back to see him and I was a bit disappointed to see the trach still in his neck. The nurse said they were waiting for Dr. K to come and take it out, she wasn't sure if the Dr would be alright with us being there for that or not but we could step out for a minute if necessary. Dr. K came by and asked me if she was going to take it out or if I was so I opted to do it. At 10:00am I took his trach out of neck for the very last time and the Dr. put a bandage over the stoma. He did really well, coughed a bit and cryed, but then fell asleep a bit later. His oxgyen sats actually went up with his trach out and he no longer needed oxygen (he normally does after anesthesia). About 10:30 we went back to his room and about 20 minutes after that he was good to go. Handed me his binky, signed "car" and "outside" poor guy he was ready to go but we have to be here until tomorrow morning. He continues to do well and soon his IV should come out. He just got done having chair races in the hall with his nurse & the charge nurse :0)