Wren is feeling cheerful this morning and I am feeling a bit rested too after 7 hours sleep. We remain in the 3-West intensive care where Wren is the least intensive but most conversational patient.
Before breakfast we looked at photos of home and played with the breast pump parts that are no longer needed. Wren is not sure whether the pump attachment is a trumpet or a toe-parasol. Here is is trying it out and reading pictures.
He is hooting "Mummy...Wren.... EAT.... egg... num-num" telling me about his breakfast.
Unfortunately, my 8 course breakfast of french toast with syrup and yoghurt and orange juice AND milk and cheerios (which would have kept all of us fed all morning) was lost in the transfer and we have the BASIC breakfast of unsalted scrambled egg with marshmallow-like white bread and petrochemical margarine. It is not going to get me down because Wren had a good night and only 20ml of chest-tube output in 24 hours.
We hope to lose the tube today and I will talk about the IV. The IV is is last remaining peripheral tube and its causing problems. Its leaking a serosanguinous mixture [that's our word-of-the-day Tam] fluid onto the "big bandaid" arm splint. If we leave the splint off it is even worse because his movement at the elbow occludes the line and causes backflow and leaking.
We will either remove or clean it today.
We have also been told that his sternal incision will be undressed today (uncovered) for better healing and observation.
Joshua is having a shower and will cycle over here in a little while.
5 comments:
Thanks for all the pics. He looks great! He looks so long. Elijah is just a little bit younger than he is and his legs are sssoooo much shorter.
I will continue to pray for all the little kinks to work themselves quickly so you all can head home.
Mmmmm, your (lost) breakfast sounds great! Tummy is rumbling a lot today.
What a trooper! Another day of great strides, we are so happy for you!!
I too am happy to see the pictures posted. Wren looks great. Glad to hear things are going so well.
I am so impressed with Wren's progress! Once that chest tube comes out I think he'll be a lot more comfortable too. Yay Wren!
I'm not sure what I was expecting a 23-month-old who'd just had open heart surgery to look like, but whatever my preconceptions, Wren is throwing them completely off. It's great that he seems to be bouncing back so well. And as for you Shannon: 7 hours of sleep... no doubt a record for you in recent memory ;-)
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