Back Transfer??

When Bruce and I got to Alexa's room this morning Dr. Jensen greeted us with some optimistic news. Dr. Emge the cardiologist in Boise is trying to make the back transfer happen by this Tuesday. Weather permitting of course which is kind of scary because it has been snowing here and in Boise. Dr. Jensen wanted to make sure that Dr. Emge was sure he could care for Alexa and asked him IF Alexa's chest tube output doesn't stop what would he do. He suggested the other surgery as well and said that he has a surgeon on his staff that would be comfortable doing this. Dr. Jensen wanted to make sure that they wouldn't just send her back to Spokane. The great thing is today she only had 54 in her fluids compared to the 145 she had in yesterdays. This is HUGE!! If she keeps it up we may be able to pull the chest tube in 3 or 4 days. That is one more check on the checklist to come home.
On the other hand today was a fussy day. They started her on a fat free formula yesterday and she hasn't tolerated it very well. She was super gassy last night and was a little gaggy. They gave her some anti nausea medicine which helped her. This morning shortly before we came in she threw up 2 times. So they held off the feeding for a couple of hours and lowered the amount. She became very upset throughout the morning and her gag reflex was super sensitive. We gave her mylicon gas drops which helped a little but she was so uncomfortable that we ended up giving her morphine at 2pm. She slept from there on out. When we left at 8pm she was still sleeping soundly. Hopefully tomorrow she starts to tolerate the formula a little better.

Me calming Alexa down after having her blood thinning shot which is very painful.