We’ve moved. We are now officially out of the Cardiac ICU and in the Cardiac Step Down unit. I truly expected the move to be a lengthy process filled with lots of discussion with docs, fellows, nurses, specialists and the like…boy was I wrong. One minute we are in …
I know that many of you may have wondered if something happened and / or if we had made it home. Well the short answer is yes and no. All was well as 12pm on Thursday per the last post but that changed fairly quickly. Prevailing theories state that Aaric either aspirated …
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 …
11:12am – Surgeon’s report. Everything went as expected, hole has been patched and there was no evidence of damage to the conductive tissue during patching (which means that he should not require a pacemaker). He did have a bit of thickening of the muscles leading to the lungs which the …
