Gary and I got to go see our boy in the CICU. He has tons of tubes in, but he looks really good. Our version of "good" is different than others. We are so very grateful that we got to tour the unit so we knew what to expect before this. I will not be posting photos on here until after we are out of the ICU. They are way graphic to handle.
It looks like they did close his chest, but he has pacing wires attached to the heart and a tube coming out of his chest draining the excess blood from surgery. He is off the heart and lung machine but he is still not currently breathing on his own. They are going to try around 9pm tonight to take him off the ventilator. Fingers crossed. They keep giving him meds to calm down because he keeps waking up and struggling to pull things out. They had to put arm cuffs on his arms and a banded blanket over him to keep him down, he is quite a little fighter! :o)
We finally got approved for our housing. We are staying in the hospital.
More to come...
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