GOOD MORNING COOPER................

Cooper is ready to wake up! They have been giving him extra meds all night to keep him under. He is ready to go. Of course the first thing he does is reach for the breathing tube so they have put some soft restraints on him. It sounds bad but it really isn't, yet. The doctors have rounded and the orders are in to start weaning him from the sleepy meds and wake him up. If all goes well they will remove him from the ventilator this afternoon. We are now in territory we have never been and I am not sure what to expect. In the past it has been days before we are at this stage. I anticipate Cooper being a little feisty about all the tubes and such but we will see how it goes. It is all just wonderful news. He is still on the pacemaker and they will see what happens as they wake him up. They are hopeful that this will improve. From what I understand, the atrium (top of the heart)is beating twice but only one of the signals is going through to the ventricle (bottom part of the heart) to tell it to beat. The VSD closure they did runs right along the electrical line between the atrium and ventricle. It can sometimes be damaged during surgery but they do not think this is what happened because the one beat is getting through. It can also just be irritated and that is what they are thinking. Well this post has taken me forever because he keeps waking up. I need to go now to help keep him calm. This is kind of hard because his face tells us he is crying and coughing but there is no sound and they have him restrained. It will be fine though, just one more step to recovery!