The Morning After

Colton did well last night he allowed me to get about 5-6 hours of interupted sleep. He was able to start drinking water and apple juice throughout the night. This morning he has made great progress and they have been removing things from him all morning. They have taken off his forced oxygen, all of his IV fluids and 1 of his heart medications. He is still receiving 1 heart medication, and 1 medicine for agitation(which the nurse said they would be removing shortly). He told the nurse that he was hungry and wanted some grapes, she told him that he would be able to eat at lunch time.

Dr. Mendeloff (surgeon) was in this morning with his team and said that everything looked great. He also stated that we should be moving out of the ICU by tomorrow morning.

Dr. Laird (Cardiologist) came in shortly after and reviewed the echocardiogram that had just been done and told us that it looked great. He wanted to be able to compare it to the the last visit that he had with Colton, but that it looked much improved and he was very excited with the result of the surgery. He said it appeared to be a mild leak as apposed to a severe leak. Agai Gret news.

Thank you for everyones continued support.