Perspective

Gabe was transferred out of Icu today and he is now on a respiratory unit. Unfortunately because he is in isolation for RSV, visitors are still limited. He is on 1L of regular oxygen now. He needs to be off oxygen for 4 hours to go home. He is wheezing a little and breath sound are slightly diminished, so they gave him a breathing treatment and we're trying to get him out of bed a little...at least as much as we can with him tethered to leads. I think he's done with this place. He keeps telling me "ready to go home". Whenever anyone with scrubs on walks in the door he yells "all done".
It's hard being here over Christmas. At least the kids don't totally get it yet. I think Christmas on the 26 th will be just fine. Justin stayed overnight with Gabe. He was woken up at 5am by an adult crying hard in the next room.  We are lucky compared to many families here. We were talking yesterday that at least it's not heart failure.  At least it's just a bad bug and we know he'll be okay..perspective I guess. We are very blessed.