Another great day!
Not as much happened today but we did have an EKG and an echo and the cardiologist came in and said they looked great, GREAT!!! We NEVER get a great! The LVOT (what they operated on) looks awesome, complete success! The ventricle they worked on looks great too! Wow! What a success. When the surgeon came in to chat with us today I asked him if looking at the echo was like looking at a finished painting as an artist, it is like getting to see your final product and must be so very satisfying. He just kind of laughed it off, he is very modest but as he was leaving my mom said, wave at the Dr, he has saved your life multiple times!
We were able to bury his pacer wires which means we took him off the pacemaker and wrapped his wires and taped them down onto his chest. They are still attached to his heart in case we need them but don’t need them hooked up anymore. Up until today his pacing wires have still been hooked up to the pacemaker so, big step!
We worked with PT today and got him walking a lot more and he did about 20 sit to stands from my lap! We went on 4 walks too! We got to play on the mat in his room too!
Last night he had kind of an odd night. He started grunting yesterday evening and we didn’t think much of it but then but he was irritable last night and the grunting with every exhale got worse. We ended up calling in the intensivist and she ordered a chest x-ray to make sure there wasn’t fluid build up from where the chest tubes came out. The x-ray came back and looked fine but they did think it meant he was in pain. We ended up doing 2 doses of oxycodone today and he was MUCH happier. He was waaayyy more himself and we got much more of his personality back.
We did day feeds but he had a big vomit so not sure how that will go.
Not much happens on weekends around here so we are hoping for a very quiet uneventful weekend.