So Atticus extubates himself....again!

Well, apparently Atticus decided to give his nurse a hard time this morning. Laura (one of his regular nurses-she's very good) noticed that he was mad/irritated, so she turned around to go his little medicine drawer and get him something to calm him down. Well, as she walked away, she noticed she suddenly heard him crying (which is unusual because the ventilator tube goes between the vocal chords, so normally he can't make any noise when he cries) and heard the alarm go off on his monitor because his oxygen saturation was dropping. He had extubated himself! Respiratory came in and got him calm, and gave him just the oxygen tubes under his nose, because he had been CPAPing for the last few days anyway. He did pretty well, he managed to keep his oxygen saturation numbers in the low 60s. Which, isn't too bad, since even on the ventilator his numbers have only been in the high 60s. Eventually though, he had to go back on the ventilator because he was just having to work too hard to breathe. But, Respiratory thinks it won't be too much longer until Atticus can come off the ventilator. *Hooray! Oh please! Oh Please! Oh Please! That would make my day, week, year!* Everyone please continue to pray, send healing thoughts, well wishes, etc! Atticus continues to make steps forward everyday.