Caught on Tape

You have to look really really close, and you have to squint your eyes, and even then you might have to just take my word for it... but this is a picture of a miniature version of one of Vita's signature "tongue out smiles". See? Isn't that great!? Things here in the PICU are just about status quo. Every day we see little improvements in Vita. Every morning during "rounds" I hope that Vita will impress the doctors by demonstrating that she's strong enough to breathe on her own so that they'll extubate her... but every day she doesn't put on quite as good a show for the doctors as she does for me. One of these mornings during rounds, maybe Saturday or Sunday (they've already said no about tomorrow) the doctors will decide to remove the breathing tube. Until then, we just wait and wait and wait and wait and wait...