post op 01
post op 02 (the close up)
if medical stuff makes you queasy, don't click on those!
he looks different already - as nick describes below. his heart is safely enclosed behind his chest, and he's a much nicer shade of pink.
most of the time ford is sleeping/sedated, but he does occasionally wake up. understandably, in those waking moments, he is usually either stoned (he gets a constant morphine infusion) and/or disgruntled with his situation. here is our dearheart looking a little glum -
but things are slowly changing and we look forward to happier expressions. today he's still struggling with his "sats" (the oxygen saturation level) and had an "episode" over night. in weening him off the ventilator, they reduced the morphine - being less sedated means he'll do more of his breathing on his own. but his blood pressure went up in response and a new IV had to be started in his scalp so they can give him meds that will keep that down AND let him be more awake. shuffle shuffle.
in other news, he got his first dose of breast milk today! through the nose, straight to the intestines - nothing can go in his stommach while he's intubated. so that's a step in the right direction! yay ford!
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What a sweetheart he is!!
ReplyDeleteOn another note, I used to call Barry dearheart, until we did a emr course and dissected the heart of an ungulate. Totaly different perspective.
You could do the main central with him. Your right hand on top of his head and left hand between the eyebrows, tip of nose, notch of the neck , top of sternum, bottom of sternum , pubic bone. Then the right hand moves to the tailbone, making a hand sandwich out of the pelvis. Of course the top of the sternum is for the heart and lungs.
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