Chuck has made it to the big time ... a single room! We're loving it. Saturday, we're having a sleep over ... Hugh Laurie is hosting Saturday Night Live ... can't wait.

Tomorrow Chuck will go back to the t-bar. If he makes it 24 hours, he'll go back to either a speaking valve or a cap. Chuck is still struggling to speak, so Dr. Brancaccio will have an ear-nose-threat doctor take a look down his throat. He's had his trache so long, scar tissue may have grown around the trache. It can "easily" be corrected surgically.

Chuck has become the wound care mascot, and we couldn't be happier! Someone from the team comes daily to check on him. If he does well off the vent, Chuck will be moved downstairs to the wound care ward. This way, the team can keep an even closer eye on him.

For all these blessings and all those to come ... I praise God!