He had his open heart procedure yesterday. So far, we're doing well. He has lots of tubes and drains and IV's, but he's doing well.
He's on 2 liters of oxygen, and has a central line in his neck, plus an IV in each arm. He has a chest tube, and a drain around his heart. He has pacemaker lines still around his heart in case he has an arrhythmia of any type, or God forbid, an arrest.
His incision is huge. Poor guy is just miserable. They have him on a lot of medicines, and are managing his pain very well.
He's pretty nauseous all day, and has barely managed to keep anything down, but all in all, we're right where we should be.
They're pleased with his progress and have all ready moved us out of the cardiac intensive care unit to the cardiac unit.
Children's has a laptop program that provides laptops for the parents at the bedside for your own personal use, and we're lucky enough to have one. They prevent you from downloading anything, of course, so pictures will have to wait until I can get home to our regular computer. I'll keep everybody updated as they days go by.
Please say a prayer for my boy. They've gotten us this far!!
Em
He's on 2 liters of oxygen, and has a central line in his neck, plus an IV in each arm. He has a chest tube, and a drain around his heart. He has pacemaker lines still around his heart in case he has an arrhythmia of any type, or God forbid, an arrest.
His incision is huge. Poor guy is just miserable. They have him on a lot of medicines, and are managing his pain very well.
He's pretty nauseous all day, and has barely managed to keep anything down, but all in all, we're right where we should be.
They're pleased with his progress and have all ready moved us out of the cardiac intensive care unit to the cardiac unit.
Children's has a laptop program that provides laptops for the parents at the bedside for your own personal use, and we're lucky enough to have one. They prevent you from downloading anything, of course, so pictures will have to wait until I can get home to our regular computer. I'll keep everybody updated as they days go by.
Please say a prayer for my boy. They've gotten us this far!!
Em
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