gijanet
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Didn't see this posted and thought we could move Justin officially to post-op! The news is fantastic. Still, keep those prayers going. It ain't over till it' over..........but it's looking really, really good! Hugs. J.
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:42 AM CDT
Good Morning! Justin is doing really well. They pulled the chest tube and he had some waterIce this morning, which felt so good. The plan is to get him up sitting in a chair in a little bit. So we couldn't ask for much more at this point. I am very grateful.
Last night, he was off the vent, but still had a small tube, about 6 inches and about 1/2 inch diameter long down his nose/ throat to keep everything open, around Midnight he was awake enough and was breathing well, so they were able to pull that. Between that and finally having Ice chips he felt much better.
For the most part the night went really well. I was awoken (I can sleep in his room)about 3am, to a nurse saying, call the doctor he just threw up all over his incision. It was a mess, but there were a few peopple there pretty quickly, so got him cleaned up and had to change his dressing. It hurt a little, especially when he had to sit up to change the sheets ect, but they give him something which helped and he did great. Actually he is so funny in the middle of this when they said they had to change the dressing, he said Mom get the camera you're missing this! lol. SO we have plenty of pictures of how great his incision looks just hours post op. Hi is intersting, that's the nice word I'll use, I won't say the first loving phrase he called me after surgery, when I missed his mouth with the ice cube.
Well hopefully next update will be in a few hours, he will have a few more lines out and be able to move around. And Yes for my friends at VR, I keep pushing the sprig at him lol.
My prayers for today are things keep moving in this great direction and they manage to keep doing as well a job of keeping his pain under control. We should have the laptop hooked up in his room soon so he will be able to read all his messages. Thank you all so much and thanks to everyone that are passing the updates on, I really appreciate it, since I just have been having time to update here. Thank you all again for the prayers and keep up the good work, Don , Lyn and Justin
ps Don went home last night and Zero was excited to see him, but then started looking for Justin and was sad. I can't wait for the dogs and Justin to be watching movies at home, Lyn
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 9:42 AM CDT
Good Morning! Justin is doing really well. They pulled the chest tube and he had some waterIce this morning, which felt so good. The plan is to get him up sitting in a chair in a little bit. So we couldn't ask for much more at this point. I am very grateful.
Last night, he was off the vent, but still had a small tube, about 6 inches and about 1/2 inch diameter long down his nose/ throat to keep everything open, around Midnight he was awake enough and was breathing well, so they were able to pull that. Between that and finally having Ice chips he felt much better.
For the most part the night went really well. I was awoken (I can sleep in his room)about 3am, to a nurse saying, call the doctor he just threw up all over his incision. It was a mess, but there were a few peopple there pretty quickly, so got him cleaned up and had to change his dressing. It hurt a little, especially when he had to sit up to change the sheets ect, but they give him something which helped and he did great. Actually he is so funny in the middle of this when they said they had to change the dressing, he said Mom get the camera you're missing this! lol. SO we have plenty of pictures of how great his incision looks just hours post op. Hi is intersting, that's the nice word I'll use, I won't say the first loving phrase he called me after surgery, when I missed his mouth with the ice cube.
Well hopefully next update will be in a few hours, he will have a few more lines out and be able to move around. And Yes for my friends at VR, I keep pushing the sprig at him lol.
My prayers for today are things keep moving in this great direction and they manage to keep doing as well a job of keeping his pain under control. We should have the laptop hooked up in his room soon so he will be able to read all his messages. Thank you all so much and thanks to everyone that are passing the updates on, I really appreciate it, since I just have been having time to update here. Thank you all again for the prayers and keep up the good work, Don , Lyn and Justin
ps Don went home last night and Zero was excited to see him, but then started looking for Justin and was sad. I can't wait for the dogs and Justin to be watching movies at home, Lyn
