Roll of the Eyes

April 14
The last 2 days have been great with glimmers of Wayne's personality and humor coming through. He has rolled his eyes at Julie, continues to smile and attempt to laugh with us. He holds Morgan most of the time and strokes her head and even tried to put her pacifier back
in her mouth. He failed the swallow study, which in turn means that he will get a permanent feeding tube that goes directly into his stomach (a PEG tube).This will be good in some respects because he can get the tube out of his nose and it will prevent him from getting food into his lungs which could cause an infection. It will be done under local anesthesia. I am not sure if speech therapy will reevaluate his swallow one more time before this is done or not.
A question that we will ask today. Progress continues to be good and we look forward to seeing how he does with PT and OT today. The next few days will determine where he will go, intensive rehab therapy, or a skilled nursing home where he would have time to gain strength and heal until he is ready for more intensive therapies.