Once Brenner was breathing on his own, we were moved out of ICU to the 8th floor. Brenner got to try bottle feeding, but showed signs of aspiration within several hours. He lost his bottle privileges and had to go to just tube feedings. They started him slow and worked him up to an ounce an hour. We had to wait the whole holiday weekend until the swallow team returned to work on Tuesday to have a swallow evaluation done. The swallow study showed that Brenner aspirated thin and nectar thick liquids. He was safe enough with honey thick liquids to do a feeding trial. So back to the floor we went. Brenner was a warrior! He knocked those bottles out one after another. Now it looked like we were going home.
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