Aug
23
2011
Tuesday August 23, 2:00 PM
I left the hospital this morning at 10:00 so that I could run home, take a shower and hopefully get some work done. As was part of the plan I took Amelia with me. We figured she would sleep the entire time I was gone and by the time she needed to feed again I would be back in the hospital. Doing it this way would also give Afton alone time with Lilee.
Well the plan went wrong almost immediately. She woke up as soon as I got to the car in the hospital parking lot, fell asleep once we started moving, and woke up again once I got home. My mom was there with the kids though so she helped out with Amelia while I took and placed a bunch of calls for work. At about 1:00 we headed back to the hospital for a feeding after which I was going to take Amelia to work with me once again.
While Amelia and I were away some pretty exciting things happened. The tubes on the left and right side that were attached to suction were removed. In their place in the picture below is a square piece of gauze. You can see it right above the Plural Catheter (the white tube closest to the bed with a gray tip). In this picture you can see we still have the pace wires (blue and coiled up), the JP drain right below the incision, the MIC-KEY is still there (white thing with a tube attached above and to the right of the belly button). They also have her attached to telemetry which are all the other wires. So there is still quite a bit there but much less than when I left. What this picture doesn't show is all the stuff they were able to take out of the room once the suction tubes were removed. Each tube had its own water filled box that controlled how much the tubes would suck. They made a constant gurgling noise. I thought it was relaxing so I will miss them but am happy they are gone.
The other thing I missed was this:
Oh ya we can hold her. She doesn't look like it in the picture but she really really likes it! Because I had Amelia, Afton was able to hold her almost all day. The picture she would not let me post was her trying to find a way to keep Lilee in her lap sleeping while at the same time feeding Amelia. Without posting the picture you will have to just believe me - she was successful.