Going home for a little while.

Posted on September 1, 2012 by William 3 Comments

It’s been another relatively uneventful week here at the hospital. Evan continues to heal and his heart rate is stable. On Monday the decision was made by the surgeon and the cardiology team that they would wait the entire 6 week antibiotic course before they put the pacemaker back in, this came as quite a shock to us since we thought we were going to the OR this week. Evan has been stable and there is no point in rushing into putting it back and taking a chance that the infection is not completely gone. It would be tragic if they had to take it all out again later and start over.

Evan is scheduled to go to the operating room on September 24th. We were given the choice of going home or staying here for the next several weeks and waiting it out. The team feels comfortable with Evan’s heart rate and would send us home on a monitor that transmits data to a “life line” service if it drops too low. We’ve decided that we will go home for a little while and come back for the surgery. We get to learn something new because we will be administering his IV medication every 6 hours. A home nurse will come once per week to change the dressing and draw blood for some labs. We will be discharged on Tuesday and spend 2.5 weeks at home before we come back to Ann Arbor. We’re told that replacing the pacemaker and recovery should take 3-5 days so we should be home by the first day of October.

We switched rooms again, this time because of a screaming 8 year old boy in the room next to us. I don’t know what was wrong with him but he screamed non-stop for several hours and they had to remove furniture from the room because of his tantrums. I believe this is our 8th room this hospital stay. LOL.