Monday, Monday

Owen has done well today by interacting more with Chelsea and myself. He seems to get a kick out of all the staff. He loves to smile at them. As for the chyle leak- we are still watching the chest tube drainage. The surgeon was less concerned with this because the volume that is coming out is so small. This is good and we will continue to watch this and pray that it does not get worse. Labs are looking good and vitals are holding stable. We are still in the cardiac ICU and will continue to be probably for the next few days. They continue to remove fluid from Owen with increased Lasix over the past 2 days which he has been doing well with. He still has his chest tubes, pacer wires, arterial line, and cardiac line in and I think tomorrow we will start to remove some of that stuff. Owen's best friend Evan came to visit but only Jeremy and Erika could come and see him. The friends had to kept apart for germ reasons but soon enough Evan will be ready to help Owen again try to remove his NG tube like in the past. What are friends for? It was nice to have visitors today to change up the routine a little. Not much happened today. Just tried to keep a 9 month old busy from trying to pull everything out. I heard that there was a little more sleep last night which is good for him. I can not even imagine how he feels. It is sad to watch him when he coughs, we know it has to hurt so bad with the chest tubes that are rubbing on the ribs and the fact the his chest has been spread apart doesn't help either. They changed the dressing on his incision and said that everything is looking good. Poor kid has a lot of bruises from multiple IV attempts. On a better note the Dietitian came by to see Owen and was very impressed with what Chelsea has been doing with Owen. I don't think a lot of people know how much time, effort, Patience and love that it takes to get through all of his feeding everyday. The amount of effort that Chelsea has put into Owen is amazing. He is not an easy baby at feeding time.