It's all about the tubes

They tried to extubate him today. He dealt with it fairly well for about 45 minutes. The thing to remember here is that breathing on one's own is very different, and much more difficult than breathing with a ventilator. At around the 45 minute mark, Maximilian decided he had had enough and started having issues breathing on his own, whereby his heart rate would dip dramatically and his oxygen saturation would diminish substantially. None of this is out of the ordinary, but it was happening so often. required so much attention and was just so stressful on the little guy, that it was best to re-intubate him and put him back on the ventilator. This is definitely one of those steps backward after the few steps forward. He had a good college try at least. We'll now have to wait for him to regather his strength and get accustomed to breathing a bit better before they try it again.