Youngest Septuplet Back on Ventilator
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The youngest of the McCaughey septuplets has been put back on a ventilator in what their doctor called a “very typical” precaution. Joel Steven was strong enough to breath on his own for a few hours Sunday but soon grew tired and was placed back on the ventilator that night. His condition, which had been upgraded to fair, returned to serious. “He’s getting some needed rest and responding very well to that,” said Dr. Robert Shaw of Blank Children’s Hospital in Des Moines.
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