3 Days Post Surgery - 6/29
Pre-Surgery - 6/26
Jason and I spent about five hours at the hospital today talking with Taylor's doctors and nurses. She had a good night and continues to show progress. She has drained off a lot of fluid since yesterday and looked really good this morning. The doctors also decided to start turning down her vent settings to start "weaning" her this afternoon after the CT scan.
The CT scan showed that her right lung airways are a bit bigger than her left, thus the discrepancy in moving air through the lungs that they have been seeing. However, Dr. Osbourne, her pulminologist, feels that the scans did not show any deterioration or worsening since the ones he took in February prior to the last surgery. Since no obstruction was found and blood flow to the lungs is good, he feels that it is just going to take a bit more time for her body to adjust to coming off heart lung bypass and the swelling in her chest. Overall flow is good as well. He continues to feel that as she grows and her airways further develop her body will adjust itself and essentially she will grow out of this issue. Right now it makes sense to continue to keep her sedated and let her body heal slowly rather than push to get her off the vent. It sounded like she would probably be "resting" for a few more days in order to make sure that the removal of the breathing tube is successful.
The only other change today was the location of her central line. It was moved from her sub-clavical area (upper chest) to down in her groin. No real issues there.
All in all a good, uneventful day. We will check in with the nurses tonight and then head back over to PICU tomorrow morning. We tooks some pictures as well to document all of the lines she is currently hooked to. It is helpful to note the progression as drips, lines and breathing tubes come off. We know for some this picture is very hard to look at, but all in all she looks really good and her incision is healing nicely as well.
Thank you to the Weerens for the delicious dinner this evening. We really appreciate the care and help of our neighbors!
Cam had a great first day at Rec PAC and Em enjoyed spending time at the pool with our wonderful babysitter Genevive.
Please keep up the prayers!!! More tomorrow...
Love,
The Goodloes
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