No more breathing tube!!!!!! (again)

They pulled Micah's breathing tube and he is SO much happier!!!!!! They are now waiting for the swelling in his throat to go down, and then we MAY be moved back out to the floor. He is doing great!!! His white cell count is WAY down; yesterday it was 20, this morning it is 9!!!!! They are pumping him full of antibiotics and they are working!!!! He'll probably be on those for a week and a half to two weeks. He has a surgical tube in his stomach now, and that will stay until he is able to feed without risk of aspiration. Unfortunately it is looking like it will probably be at least six month before that happens. But as long as he is able to feed and put on weight, he should be able to go home. Dr. Brown is hoping that by the time he gets back from Montreal, in about a week, Micah will be ready to go home.