1st night out

Little A had a "good night" as told by the nurses and docs. To me, she was a bit restless but pretty good. She had a mild reaction to the morphine so she got tylenol twice and benadryl once. IV benadryl knocks kids OUT, she fell right asleep after being rally agitated at 3am. They did pulse checks of the artery and vein at the anastomosis site (right in front of her ear) every hour. Those dopplers are really loud at 11p, 12a, 1a, 2a, you get the picture.

This morning she got the foley catheter out and has walked to the potty twice. She was sure she couldn't and that her legs didn't work. But, to her surprise, she did it! She looked at herself in the mirror and was upset, understandabley so. She has 12 little popcorn sutures (little yellow gauzes) along her eyebrow, down her nose and chin and along her jawline. The one right by her eye and nose are annoying her. She doesn't have any sensation on the left side of her face due to the graft and it must tingle around her eye b/c she keeps complaining about her eye "hurting."

They are still doing hourly pulse checks and may space out to every 2 hrs this evening. Most likely she will hang in the PICU overnight only because of the frequent pulse checks. Hopefully she'll be able to eat solids this eve, though she isn't too terrible interested right now. They also like to keep the room temp at 74 degrees to make sure she stays more vasodilated to keep good flow through the vessels. Poor little punkin also has a couple pressure sores on her heels that are bothering her. :(

Its raining and dreary outside today. Good day to hang out inside and watch Rocky.