Tag: aaric

12:11pm  – Still waiting on the big move to the step down unit but in the meantime we’ve made one small move – right into a bouncer / vibrator – wires and all.   They set it in his crib right on top of the mattress and we hoisted him in.  I can’t …

11:30am Aaric has chowed down a total of 6ozs so far – yep, he was hungry. On another note, we came to the hospital this morning to play doctor and participate in rounds (only for Aaric of course) with the doctor and associated entourage.  It’s a new thing the hospital started …

10:00am – Hooray !  Aaric is officially off the ventilator – it was removed at 5:15am which means that he was able to eat for the first time in almost 36 hours – 2 whole ozs of milk.  He’s doing very well and will be moved to the step down …

The nurse started Aaric’s courage beads today – each bead represents an event, i.e. a black bead for every poke / blood draw, yellow for CICU admission, etc.   The string just keeps getting longer and we can’t wait until he earns his discharge beads. In addition to the beads we …

Nina found this particular piece of art amusing… it helps if step into the gutter with her to appreciate it from her perspective.

So we left the hospital around 2:00pm to go home, get some rest, and most importantly put together some chow for Aaric (milk de jour of course) – now we are back.  He’s been soundly asleep as a result of the anesthesia, morphine, and versad cocktail and now at a …

12:30pm – All settled into the CICU.  He looks good and is still out cold.  Hopefully the ventilator will come out tonight – if not, maybe first thing tomorrow.  After that he has to wait awhile but then can eat…  Everything else will domino out after that.  For now we …