"Ready go home" -Ayden

We have been very excited to see more and more of Bubba lately. He had a few times yesterday that he woke up and talked some. His speech is slow at times and fine at others. He is definitely more aware of what is going on, whining and fussing when people come in and when we do the meds. This morning he ate some breakfast, which was more than he has had in awhile, and he has kept it down. His eyes are not focused, but opening so we are hopeful. We have orders for a move out of ICU today, but if we are going to the EMU then we could be waiting for awhile. Our neurologist just came in, they left the leads on him overnight and saw short spikes in his good hemisphere. Really, this is not anything new and we are ok with it. We know his left hemisphere has damage and has potential for seizures that is why he remains on AEDs. Therapy wasn't very successful yesterday, but he was just too tired so hopefully we will see some more work today as he perks up. No talk of discharge yet, but everything points to taking our time to make sure he is good before we go. Thank you to everyone for the prayers we really feel like we are on the upswing now and as Ayden said yesterday "Ready go home!" Our reply to him was simply, you have a lot to do before then so let's get busy!