Day 4 - Sunday

Sofia is pretty weak, but making progress. The doctors rounded this morning and Dr. Qureshi (the cardiologist) said that her chest tubes would probably stay in a few more days. It will be nice when these come out because I'm they are causing her some pain, as they are sewn in right now. She perked up today when Oliver arrived and we took a walk down the hall. She has had a little effusion (fluid build up) around her right lung, which apparently looked better today. Also, her liver felt better today after feeling enlarged yesterday. She is doing better on a reduced amount of oxygen, which is good too. When she is in pain she quickly de-sats because she's not taking good breaths. She got an infusion of albumin (protein) because her blood work showed a decline in numbers. She still had a little morphine today, and she she is on coumadin (blood thinner). She also got the dressing changed again today on her wound and her incision looks good. Her IJ (internal jugular)/central line came out today too. The risk of infection is not work keeping it in. She still has one I-V. The downside of having the IJ removed today is that for her daily blood draws she will now need to be poked. I'm glad Oliver came at the time he did today. I was solo all night, which was ok, but it was nice when he got here. Sofia seemed like she was becoming sad and she always gets excited to see her daddy. Also, I was starting to get irritated at some things related to life in the "pod." For example, please don't wake me up to ask me if you can weigh her at 2 AM. It can wait until she wakes up, given how restless sleep is around here. Also, at about 3 AM I couldn't fall asleep because I the doors to the hallway were open and there were 2 staff members chit chatting right outside her curtain (aka door) for what seemed like a long time, even though I know it was probably just a few minutes. I know it's the middle of the day for you, but is the middle of the night for everyone else around here, and it is really hard to stay in the pod for an extended period of time. I don't want to rant too much because overall things have been really good. I was just starting to get frustrated and Oliver is usually much less bothered by things than I am, so it was good that he got here when he did. Looking forward for more improvements tomorrow!