--Chest xray from this morning showed significant improvement! Because of this improvement, we are currently doing a test run on room air. So no supplemental oxygen. We are even giving him a break from wearing the nasal cannula while the oxygen is turned off; giving his little nostrils a break. He has been maintaining on the low side of the doctors request for ''normal'' of 87-91, which passes their requirement to stay like this for the time being.
--His sodium is quite low from the drainage, puking, and not eating, so we are now on a sodium chloride liquid supplement. Which I think tastes saltier than the ocean, but he took a few bites of turkey lunch meat and a hard pretzel today.
--The amount of puking has slowed down. He's still doing it, but we're finally getting on the positive side of intake vs. output.
--We have been able to space out the distance between each dose of oxycodone, and we've only had morphine this morning when he had to get up, walk to the weight scale, and then go downstairs for his xray.
--He stood up for five minutes on his hospital bed mattress while Andrew stabilized him so I could give him his first bath post-op this morning. He has a little button up shirt from his regular wardrobe and wears it around with his undies. Pretty cute! After his bath he wanted to sit in the recliner on Daddy's lap today.
--With lots of support to get off the hospital bed, he stood up on the ground, straightened his legs out, tried to stand up straight, held my hand and the nurse's hand and walked over to our little built-in twin size parent bed... all so he could take a nap with Andrew this afternoon.
--Seems like the only *major* thing we're concerned about today is that the drainage from his right blake drain is still bloody and hasn't started to change over to the serous fluid yet. The left one, however, has. It'd just be nice for the right one to ''catch up'' with the left one.
Before morning bath
After morning bath
During nap with Daddy
