Food and such.
When we last visited I mentioned that we were allowed to try and give him some yogurt. You may remember that after the last surgery we were concerned about him having headaches because the pressures in his head would be different after the surgery. This surgery is for the lower part of the body, so instead of being concerned about headaches, we are concerned about gut aches. So eating and drinking become really big things. He has eaten some yogurt but doesn't seem too interested in food. He is on restricted fluids at the moment because they are trying to get fluid to drain out of the area around his lungs. The sooner that happens the sooner the two remaining chest tubes come out. However, they also don't want him getting dehydrated so we are walking a fine line. At first he couldn't get enough to drink, but now he has tapered off a bit. So, they are thinking that they may have to give him some fluids by IV if his drinking doesn't pick up. While they would like him to eat and drink more, it is no surprise that he isn't eating a ton. It has only been a little more than two days since his surgery and a little more than one day since he had morphine and a sedative. Oh yea, he has tubes sticking out of his chest.
Thaddeus has had a lot of meds and tubes and wires removed. He is down to monitors, chest tubes, a catheter and some pain meds. They have started him on oral aspirin and cumadin to thin his blood. He is still on O2. Well, the O2 is blowing, sometimes in his nose, sometimes near his nose. His O2 numbers have been very good for him. They won't even think about removing the O2 until the rest of the chest tubes (plurals) are taken out.
So for now, we are just waiting, trying to keep him as comfortable as possible as he tries to heal.
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