davidswife
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We are being sprung!!!!!
It was a longer stay (14 days) than we anticipated but it has given David more time to get a little stronger and hopefully make it a little easier on me now when we get home. His INR got to 1.99 yesterday (from 1.3 something the day before - a much bigger jump than we expected considering how it had been creeping up the previous two days) and we thought he might get out yesterday but the surgeon on call (not David's surgeon) said that it had to be over 2.0. Today it was 1.92 and I was afraid that they would keep him but they are letting him go and we just have to have the INR checked again on Tuesday. So we are just waiting for the doctors to finish rounds and write up the discharge orders which will probably be another couple of hours.
The OHS incision looks great, the pacemaker site is really bruised and is giving David some discomfort and he is very tired. He has not had a shower since before the surgery (they would not let him shower with the heparin which was just discontinued yesterday). I would like him to shower here before he leaves so we don't have to deal with that when we get home but he is tired and I think a little afraid. We will not try to shower tonight anyway because I know that I have read here that the day you go home that is all that you should do - just go home. It is not worth fighting with him about, though. I think he must feel that he has had very little control while he has been here and so I need to let him make these decisions, even if it may make it harder on me later on (then I can just tell him "I told you so!").
Thanks again for all of your thoughts and prayers! Now I can really say that we have made it over the mountain!
Nadine
It was a longer stay (14 days) than we anticipated but it has given David more time to get a little stronger and hopefully make it a little easier on me now when we get home. His INR got to 1.99 yesterday (from 1.3 something the day before - a much bigger jump than we expected considering how it had been creeping up the previous two days) and we thought he might get out yesterday but the surgeon on call (not David's surgeon) said that it had to be over 2.0. Today it was 1.92 and I was afraid that they would keep him but they are letting him go and we just have to have the INR checked again on Tuesday. So we are just waiting for the doctors to finish rounds and write up the discharge orders which will probably be another couple of hours.
The OHS incision looks great, the pacemaker site is really bruised and is giving David some discomfort and he is very tired. He has not had a shower since before the surgery (they would not let him shower with the heparin which was just discontinued yesterday). I would like him to shower here before he leaves so we don't have to deal with that when we get home but he is tired and I think a little afraid. We will not try to shower tonight anyway because I know that I have read here that the day you go home that is all that you should do - just go home. It is not worth fighting with him about, though. I think he must feel that he has had very little control while he has been here and so I need to let him make these decisions, even if it may make it harder on me later on (then I can just tell him "I told you so!"
).Thanks again for all of your thoughts and prayers! Now I can really say that we have made it over the mountain!
Nadine
