Overnight Wes did fine. Slept, didn’t sleep, stayed calm either way. Nurse Brittany was very nice and will be back again tonight. Today Nurse Shauna is back and Wes decided to take things up a notch since yesterday’s progress. He was very happy when he woke up with some rainy day-brightening smiles. His chest x-ray looks better than yesterday. His arterial line came out of his left wrist this morning, followed by both of his chest tubes. Some initial grumpiness and pouting after the chest tube removal was alleviated by some scrambled eggs, toast, and banana for lunch – the first solid food since dinner last Tuesday, the night before surgery.

After lunch was a giant poop which made Shauna cheer and clap. He will be weaned off of “dex” by the end of today, and I think they’ll be stopping his heparin, too. He is still being paced, although this morning they found he had converted from a junctional rhythm to a sinus rhythm, which is the change they said could still happen and even further lessen the likelihood of the pacemaker (it means that the atria are beating first, as they should be). As of 4:30 he had changed back to junctional, but the fact that he got to sinus rhythm at all is fantastic.

Henry is doing great at home, after entertaining Mimi for several days he was handed off to Rob and Lorraine to give them a taste of ‘A day in the life of Henry’.

Josh came to Boston for a visit and received a welcoming smile from Wes.