Moving Right Along

We are three days post op, and she is already back on her home vent. Her vent settings are just a tad higher than normal, because she has some junk still down in her lungs that she needs to cough out. They are doing a positive pressure breathing treatment to help with that. They will take her chest dressing off tomorrow and then take her staples out sometime this week. Her chest tubes have stopped draining blood, and are now draining the straw colored fluid. Yesterday after I put her down from holding her for three hours, she was mad. She was only happy if I was touching her and talking to her. They finally had to give her some Morphine and Versed. I hate leaving her for even two seconds now. She knows when I leave the room, and the nurses said she gets mad. Abby and Maddy went home this morning. I miss them already, but they were getting restless. I think they miss their toys and their own beds.
I plan to have lots and lots of cuddle time with Bella today. I can't wait until she is all healed up so I can hold her close. Right now I am scared to even hardly touch her because I know it has to hurt.
RT is doing the positive pressure treatment right now, and they are getting tons of stuff up out of her lungs. She is tolerating her feeds really well. She is peeing good on her own. So like I said, we are moving right along. I don't know when she will come home, but it will be soon. Probably around one week.
Thanks again for all of your prayers.