All Cleaned Up!!

From Abbey!

"Ella had a good night. She got a new bed, a bath and clothes! This morning when I got here the nurse practicioner from cardiology was here removing her central line that was in her neck. That means that she does not need it and they feel pretty confident that her heart rate is good.  (they were leaving it in just in case they needed to give her medication to increase her heartrate) They just don't want it to dip into the 60's which it has not in a a few days! They also took her nares off her head and back. That was just monitoring the oxygen to the upper and lower parts of her body. She really could have gotten rid of them a couple of days ago, but apparently those little stickers are like $300. The nurse had just replaced them so they wanted to get good use out of them! They wanted to watch to make sure that her oxygen levels do not dip when her heart rate dips, but her heart goes down and back up so fast that nothing is picked up.
All Ella has left as far as wires and tubes go is her monitor and her feeding tube! In my mind that means we are officially down to the feeds! Cardiologist came and checked her out today and said that she looks great and is doing well. I liked listening to him talk to the med student about Ella. He was explaining that the doctors really prefer to do this type of surgery on 6 month old babies but sometimes it can be done earlier, like in Ella's case. We also talked about what to expect after recovery and as she grows.  There is nothing to expect but a normal life. Dr. Obrien said that she will have follow up appointments at first and then as time goes on, the cardiologist will eventually get bored with telling us that she is doing great and he will stop seeing her! I thought that was a funny way to put it. They did tell me that if we were to have more children (which we are not!!) they would need to be scanned for heart defects because there is a probability of another baby being born with a heart defect, but not huge percentage. When Ella grows up and decides to have children she will have the same probability of having a baby with a defect as well, but maybe not the same defect. The percentage of a defect is relatively small.
So, today is looking like it is going to be a bit boring. THANK GOD!!!"

It's always a good day when a girl get's her bath and some new clothes!  Hope you all have a great evening!
-Heather