Post Op day 2 Afternoon

Addie is doing OK. Very restless. They are currently working on taking out her arterial line as it kept bleeding when she would squirm, so they are just going to take it out. Addie is not very happy. Grandma is singing to her and that is helping. I can't watch anymore. It is so hard seeing her squirm and trying to cry but not being able to do anything about it.

They are waiting until later this afternoon to take out the breathing tube as she doesn't have a leak around the breathing tube, and they would like to have atleast somewhat of a little leak as that would mean there is not very much swelling around the tube. They have started a steroid that is supposed to decrease the swelling so that hopefully the next time they check there will be more of a leak around the tube and then will be able to extubate. Her chest x-ray looks good, so just waiting for swelling around the tube to go down. They would also like to see her be more awake, which means less morphine, so we're trying to find that fine line between getting her more awake, but not uncomfortable to where she is squirming around so much and pulling out lines and tubes.....