The Morning After

As I sit here looking at my little Colby, I am in complete amazement of him!! He is such a tough little guy and definitely a fighter! He is only 10 weeks old, weighs only 10 lbs, and has already been through a major surgery. I didn't have any surgeries until my C-Section with Brody at 26! What is more impressive to me is how well he seems to be recovering! He is incredible!

The doctors are very impressed with him as well. So far, he has had no real concerning things happen. He did get a low grade fever and run high on some of his levels in his blood (lactate level), but both of those are supposedly normal after this surgery and are now improving. The most concerning thing to me (not to the doctors...totally normal) is how swollen he is. He looks like a marshmallow man laying there! He is also pretty irritable (understandably), but it is incredibly hard for me and Jason to just watch him lay there uncomfortable or even in a little pain. There is just not much we can do for him right now, unfortunately. It is a very helpless feeling...one I'm not good at feeling!

As far as eating, he has started taking a little milk in a bottle. He has had maybe a few ounces, but it has been hard for him to eat because of the congestion in his throat/chest...another normal thing after this surgery. They did just deep suction him, so maybe this will help some and he can eat more later. Eating should definitely make him feel better!

I forgot to mention that he is breathing room air now (no more oxygen needed). On room air, his sats are in the upper 80s and 90s!! This is great...we are back to where we started. They took him off of the heparin this morning and switched him to baby aspirin to thin his blood. He will probably go home on this. For his pain, they are still giving him Tylenol and Morphine. Other than that, he is on no other drips/medicines. Pretty good!!

Believe it or not, the surgeon told us this morning that they will most likely move him to the floor later this afternoon. This would mean he is out of Critical Care! She thinks his chest tube may come out tomorrow or Thursday, which means we may be headed home Thursday or Friday! Again, Colby is recovering so great!

The nurses keep telling me how awesome he looks and well he is doing. I am glad that they keep reinforcing this to me, because as his mom, I just feel like he is not doing well at all. It is so hard to see him like this! I just want to pick him up and love on him!!!! Hopefully we will have a chance to do that a little later today.

We'll try to post a little later this afternoon to keep everyone updated, especially if we do get moved to the floor. That will be a big step in the direction of going home!