Chest tube has been "yanked" literally

Good morning friends and family-Papa Mitch here with the Thursday morning update. Last night the g-tube button came out of his tummy, i knew it was broken and so did the doctors and nurses for about the last 4 days, but they said as long as it was taped down it would be fine. WRONG! It popped out in a crying fit last night. After the nurses got approval they stuck a new one in, blew it up, gave his some Tylenol and went on their way. More traumatic on Kari and I than Casher. About an hour ago the head surgeon came in the room like a hurricane-looked at Casher's output from his chest tube and quickly decided to take his chest tube out. Within minutes Casher was on his side, Kari was holding his hands and Dr. Rothenberg literally YANKED this tube out of Casher's Chest. Neither Nan nor I could believe how well Cash handled having a 3" section of tube ripped out of him like a loose tooth, a grownup would still be whining. He is resting now, getting a very small amount of food slowly throughout the day-The docs will increase that amount slowly day by day until he is eating enough to come home. We hope that will be less than a week from now. As always we thank you all for your support, love, and prayers-we couldn't do this without all of you. We are so blessed to have such a strong committed group of people surrounding us. More to come...