2 weeks after surgery & doing great

Just a short update.

Abi continues doing great. She is so active now we have to keep our eyes on her all the time. She grabs everything that is close enough, even when getting it means leaning forward so far while sitting that her chest touches the ground between her legs and she needs to stretch her arms as much as she only can.

She is so adorable, "talking" all the time, giggling and never letting smile off her face.

Her feeding habbits are getting better and evening routines are improving too. More predictable and much easier.


Her grandpa is doing very well too and can't wait to come and meet her ;-)

Thank you all fo your thoughts and prayers!











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The first Post-Op behind us

We have our first post-op visit (first after the second surgery) behind us. It went very well, except the x-Ray itself. Abi just hates x-Ray with passion, though the results were awesome. Both the x-Ray and echo look very well and seems like the repair is working great. The cardiologist was very pleased with how things look and how Abi is doing and recommended the following medical treatment for now: Love Her, Feed Her and Let Her Grow ;-)

We got the Lasix down to half of what she was getting so far and we are going for another visit in 2 weeks. We hope to lower Lasix even more then and to maybe totally stop giving her Prinivil (the blood pressure medicine).

Thank you to all of you praying for her and us and for all your comments!!!!

Greets

Cardiologist Post Op Appointment

9.16pm

Tomorrow we're going to the first post-op cardiac appointment. X-Ray early in the morning and then cardiologist. We're pretty anxious to be honest though Abi has been doing great since the surgery. She eats great and is back to being the wonderful herself except for nights. Again she's waking up often and seems to have harder time falling asleep in the evenings.

We'll know more tomorrow!

Have a great night every one!




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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!!!

Art


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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!!!!!!

Art


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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.













Art


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