Eric had a pretty good night sleep wise. His potassium dropped significantly, so now that is in the mix with all his meds. Today will be more of getting him up and moving.
To begin, thanks so much for visiting. I promise future posts won't be nearly as long as this one is sure to be. We thought it might be helpful to keep people up to date with some recent developments in our little world. Today's post will hopefully begin to fill anyone interested in with the happs of the situation and what to expect moving forward. Bottom line... My heart is a little broken down and in need of some upgrades. I need to "pimp my ticker". I know, right, it's great news there's actually one in there...even if it is the size of a pea and hard as a rock! Really though, I have a bicuspid aortic valve, which is a very frequent and fixable heart defect. It's actually the most common type of heart defect, present in about 1-2% of the population. It's likely some of you have it, too. Most people live an entire lifetime never knowing they have it, or there is no need to do anything about it. Mine just happens to be causing s...
Eric will have a busy, and probably exhausting day. It's time to get up and get moving. The last tubes (besides the IVs) will all be out this morning. A doctor from Dr. Svensson's team said that day 3 is the toughest, but it should be smooth sailing ahead. She is adjusting Eric's IV meds to hopefully get his pain managed but minimize the loopiness. The rest of the team will be assessing Eric later this morning. The girls are heading back to Colorado today. They are worn out, especially from the added bonus of getting to deal with head lice. All three of us girls are in the clear and now we just have to follow a regiment for the next three weeks to make double sure. Fun! After seeing their plane off, I'll head back and focus on Eric. Our added situation yesterday, left me not getting to be with him as much as I would've liked. More to come.....
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