Walking

The chest tubes didn't put out any fluid overnight. Riley was given another chest x-ray this morning and the doctors will check to make sure everything looks good. Yesterday they discontinued the Diuril and today they'll back Riley down to two doses of Lasix instead of three. If everything goes well, they might remove the chest tubes tomorrow. In that case, we'd probably get to go home on Monday. Nobody goes home on Sundays and they'll want to monitor him an extra day anyway. Of course, if the chest tube output picks up now that they've reduced the diuretics, all bets are off. Same deal if the chest x-ray shows backed up fluid.

Two days ago Riley made himself a necklace in the playroom with letters spelling "Riley Norton." He picked out and arranged the letters himself and even threaded them (all we did was tie the knot). Last night he decided he wanted to go to the playroom again to make a necklace for Daddy. He also made one for Mommy.

Just now we came back down to the playroom where Riley wanted to play with cars. However, another kid was playing with them so Riley sat down to use playdough. When he noticed the other kid had finished with the cars he said "I can play with cars now" and before he realized it he'd stepped off his chair and was standing. I held his hands while he walked ten feet to the cars where he promptly sat down on the floor and began playing. More evidence that Riley is physically capable of more than he's mentally prepared to do. Hopefully when those tubes come out we'll make good progress.