1st Hospital Stay

We're at Mercy hospital in Des Moines, IA with Tucker. He has influenza and RSV. They are both respiratory viruses. Since a week ago Thursday he was having a hard time breathing and doing a lot of coughing and wheezing. We've been here at the hospital since Saturday morning. Because it is a virus, they can't give him any medicine for it. He was on oxygen and monitors. At 1:30 they turned his oxygen down to 21% which is the same as room air. At 2:30 they took off the nose tube and he's doing pretty well on his own. He has to keep his oxygen levels in his blood above 90% overnight on his own before we can go home. We're hoping that will be tomorrow, what a GREAT christmas present! It's been pretty rough on all three of us, but we're hanging in there. Thanks for all the calls and prayers. We'll keep updating.