So I have a few more tid bits from yesterday. When the physical therapist came in to work with Cory, they sat him up twice. The first time he had a sharp pain in his side so they laid him back down. The second time they sat him up he had a pain in his bottom. It took a lot of work on the therapist part, but getting to sit up for even 30 seconds was a good thing. Last night before Scott left, Cory begged him to stay. His sedation medication had been lowered and he was having night terrors again. He really hates being alone at night. Scott was able to get the sedation meds increased before he left for the night, but he had a hard time leaving his brother.

Around 2am Cory woke up having a really hard time breathing. He has a big nurse buzzer that they place on his chest, and I didn't know this but he has had movement on his right side from his forearm to his hand, so he was able to reach the buzzer and call the nurse. They took him for a CT scan and it was clear. They did an ultrasound as well and found that his lower left chamber in his lung had collapsed. So yes he will get his tracheostomy today at noon. Because they were going to do it yesterday, they had taken Cory's feeding tube out at midnight the night before. I know he still did not have it put back by noon yesterday. I still am not sure when or if they put the feeding tube back in, so he was a little deprived of nourishment yesterday in prep for the trech he will be getting today.

When I was on the phone with Chaney getting the update, the ultrasound tech was in checking Cory's legs for blood clots. Everything seemed to check out fine there. His liver levels are slightly elevated, so they are just checking everything to make sure there are no other complications. So far, so good.