Recovery - Day 2 (Moving Day)

Blake had a good night. The doctors tried to get him completely off oxygen so that we could remove the nasal cannula that irritates him like crazy. Unfortunately, his sats decreased to the low 90s so they were forced to leave it on with minimal oxygen going to him returning them to the upper 90s. He continued to cough through the night to get some of the build up in his lungs out. This caused him to vomit several times, but he didn't seem to mind. They feel like once his lungs dry out a little more and he is more active his sats will stabilize quickly without oxygen.

This morning they noticed that his white blood cell count was elevated which could be a result of him fighting an infection somewhere although he isn't running a fever. His x-ray results showed some moisture in his lungs so they have put him on a scheduled dose of Lasix to dry that up. We will see how the x-rays look tomorrow.

During rounds this morning they decided to go ahead and leave the 3 drainage tubes in one more day even though some of the doctors thought they should still be removed. Blake also gets to return to a fully normal diet today although he will still be fluid restricted. We have been given our papers to move from the ICU to the recovery floor today. Weekends at the hospital run incredibly slow, so who knows when the move will actually happen, but we are excited to get out of ICU today!

We will post another update this evening.