5th Day Post Op

8.41pm

Our little Ms Muffin is doing great; like nothing happened 5 days ago. She's very active, moving around all the time and curious about everything; seems like the surgery hasn't slowed her down in any aspect and she is comfortable and not in pain. She's not only responding. but is initiating smiles like she wants to show how cute her smile is.





Her eating habits haven't changed much since the pre-surgery time. She is still into solids more than into milk. The breathing has definitely improved. She seems to be on a 'hospital' schedule and wakes up several times a night. That's a pretty significant change comparing to the nights she slept through before the surgery. We hope to get there again soon.

Good night,

First Night Home

Abi was very happy to be back home, back in her bed and back in her high chair. After the bath she fell asleep almost immediately though she treated it as a nap and was up an hour later. Then it took her a while to fall back asleep. She woke up 3 hours later about midnight, ate like a champ and went back to sleep. Woke up again at 4.30am ate really well again and went back to sleep just to wake up about 6.45am and chill on her own in her bedroom for the next 45 minutes. Yup, no crying no fussing while waiting for her time to get up.

She's really happy and all smiles all the time. We didn't have to give her any pain killers overnight nor in the morning.

She's doing great so far!!!

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3rd Day After Surgery In Pictures

3.22pm

Unnecessary wake up at 5.20am for labs that never happened









Chillin' when there is nothing else to do













After very successful x-Ray packing the bags to clean up the room











Packing the valuable cargo






With discharge papers rolling out





In the car










Fun ride












In 72 hours from the surgery....

Getting my girls home!!!!


























Thank you THANK YOU all for your prayers and support!!!!!!

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Just chillin'

8.34am

Last night wasn't too bad. Abi had a hard time falling asleep in the evening and once in the middle of the night. At 5.30am a lab tech showed up to draw some blod because one of the IVs that had a good blood return stopped working and they needed to poke Abi to get some blood. We were really unhappy about this since we know it is very difficult to find Abi's veins so we told the tech to wait 5 minutes and the nurse to give Abi painkillers. Well the tech said she was too busy to wait 5 minutes (really???) and she would come back in 30 minutes. Well we were up all this time only to hear from the morning nurse at 8am that yesterday's lab results were so good the doctors decided we don't need more blood today.

Now we're waiting for rounds and another x-Ray reading books and having fun.













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Echo and x-Ray

2.54pm


Today's x-Ray and echo confirmed the surgery went great and the baffle reconstruction was completed successfully. Eveything works as expected and there is no blood flow obstruction in this pulmonary vessel and the leaking tricuspid valve is leaking much less. Both ventricles are strong and the reconstructed atriums look great.

Abi is done for today with tests, x-rays, echos and whatnot. Time to rest.

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Time to play

J.

Breathing

11.40am

Since Abi woke up only couple hours from the surgery and got
out of the CICU the very next day without any sedation meds she got to experience the soreness of her chest this time, hence the changes in breathing. She got couple deep breaths and then was breathing faster but not this deep to avoide pain. This seems to be naturl and normal after surgery and last time we did not observe anything like this because she was sedated for the first 2 days.

Right now she's sleeping and resting and breathing just fine.

And the saturation is in mid/high 90s; 98-100.


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