All in all a good day

Matthew�s original surgery date would have been today. Thank God he is so much farther along. Matthew had an IJ (internal Jugular) line put in his neck today. It should last around five days. That is long enough for his blood cultures to come back negative and for him to get a Broviack line surgically installed. Swatii, his doctor, got the line in on the first try. Raji, his loving nurse, got a blood sample from it with ease. Also, he tipped the scales this morning at 8 1/3lbs. Tomorrow he will hopefully rest up for extubation on Friday. Terri was in a darkly humorous mood today. She said that on Friday Matthew will either �make it or Trach it�.