[Yawn] Not much going on.

Posted on August 17, 2012 by William 2 Comments

 

Since the surgery it has been pretty uneventful, thankfully. Evan continues to recover quickly and is becoming more like himself again. He’s still more sleepy than normal but that may come from the lower heart rate and the pain meds. His heart rate has been very consistently 55-65 bpm and he has not really needed any supplemental oxygen in the last day or so. One of his IV lines was removed but he still has 3 and 2 chest tubes. The plan is to take one of the chest tubes out in the morning and leave the other until it’s very dry. The IV’s continue to flush well and he’s not messing with them so we’ll just leave those in case we need them.

Now we play the waiting game. We don’t know how long we’re going to wait before the pacemaker goes back in and we don’t know if that entire wait will be in the hospital or if we will go home and continue the antibiotics and then come back at a later time. Evan’s heart rate will give us the answer over the next week or two. Sarah and I have major hesitation about going home without a pacemaker. He had the pacemaker put in because he needs it and going home without out it is very scary. I trust the doctors, so if we watch his rate over the next week or so and it’s solid then i’ll warm up to the idea of going home but it will still take a lot of convincing and a very solid monitoring/backup plan. If we do go home it will only be for 2-3 weeks and then we’ll be back to have the pacemaker put back in. Although it certainly would be nice to go home it makes us very nervous so we’ll just wait and see. Paying multiple insurance deductibles for this would not be very nice either.

Evan seems to have a lot of “first’s” while we’re in the hospital and this stay has not been any different. Up until the surgery he was crawling around more than we’ve ever seen, he’s getting his first molar, and he’s learning how to wave really well (albeit at himself).

Here are some pictures from the last 3 or so days.