We are scheduled to bid Mott adieu Monday afternoon!!! It has been 10 days since Evan’s surgery and he has done really, really well. So well in fact that mom and I are a little nervous about it but I can’t argue with his progress, he’s doing great! Since our last post his chest tube drainage continued to slow down. The area around his left lung didn’t produce any fluid after the drainage was split into two containers so it was removed a couple days ago. His right lung produced a lot of fluid for another day or so and then it more or less stopped, only 10 mL per shift for 2-3 shifts. This morning the last chest tube and the last thing keeping Evan from being completely free from tubes and cords was removed!
He has moments of cute, happy, and fun and then like flipping a switch he’s whiny, crabby, and non-cooperative. I can’t blame him, he’s gone through a lot in the last 10 days. Someone is always taking his blood pressure, listening to his heart, poking his belly, waking him up in the middle of the night or from his naps, etc, etc. The tech came into his room today for one of these check-ins while he was napping. She was kindly asked to come back later, i’m over it, and I know that he is too. He’s handling it far better than I would. We’re all ready to go home.
His love for momma continues. He only wants to sit with mom, only wants mom to feed him, and only wants mom to change his diaper… I guess it’s not all bad but I hope it doesn’t last much longer, it’s not fun.
Monday he will have a pacemaker interrogation and an echo before we are discharged. In particular, they want to see how his heart has responded to the new pacemaker lead. They are hopeful that his heart is beating more uniform and naturally.
I guess that’s it… piece of cake, right?
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