We remain at the hospital for another day and night. Dr. Q, our surgeon, is cautious about Teo's fluid around his heart and wants to observe another day. Teo has continued to breastfeed and has not been ordered back to the low-fat formula - so we need to monitor that for another day as well. The 'discharge coordinator' continues to visit daily, starting yesterday, giving the impression we are leaving soon but we know better than to anticipate at this point. Despite that, we are optimistic about departing this week!
On other wires and tubes, Teo's IV head gear has been removed this morning as well as his pacing wires. The pacing wires were in the muscle of his heart and just get pulled - ouch. Teo's been very accomodating with all of this - both insertion and removal of things. He also had the dressing on his incision removed today. Apparently it is well-known among the nurses here that Teo's surgeon does that himself and its usually later than other surgeons. So, we have waited patiently and now we have finally seen the "damage" and, for a scar, it looks pretty good!
Teo still looks like he needs more sleep with his red and watery eyes but is otherwise continuing to progress nicely by our account. We have been fortunate to date in having a room to ourselves but have just gained a room-mate. From the sounds of it, Teo won't be sleeping much today either! But days are pretty noisy around here in general with a lot more staff, rounds and tube-removals among other things. It was nice while it lasted...
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