Home Again

We're back in our house, as of this evening. The mandatory evacuation was lifted for our area, though it's still in effect just three quarters of a mile to the east. How long we're allowed to stay depends entirely on the winds. The Santa Ana (hot, strong, west-bound) winds disappeared unexpectedly early this morning, allowing our usual breeze from the ocean to push all the fires toward the east. The Santa Anas were expected to continue until Thursday, so they could flare up again at any time. We left most of our non-expensive stuff (pictures, documents) in the car, so we can probably be ready again in about fifteen minutes....let's hope we don't need to test that theory. D's school, along with every other school in San Diego, has been closed until next week, and my customer has closed their facilities until at least Thursday. We should have tomorrow to recover, unpack a bit more, and head to the hospital for a longer visit with Andrew.

Andrew's continuing to do well on higher ventilator settings, and there's no sign of the fever or extra-elevated heart rate. Hopefully they'll be able to slowly wean him back down on the ventilator, though I don't mind them giving him a few days to rest. In addition, they've continued to increase his feedings, and he's gotten to an incredible 18cc per hour. I can't say that I expect it to continue without any spitting up, but for now it's great that he's almost doubled his intake in the last week.

I hope everyone in the fire areas is safe (and housed), and that those of you in other areas are having a better week than the 500,000 San Diegans that have been displaced. More on Andrew when we get to spend more time with him, and perhaps talk to the doctors.