Day 2!

I am happy to announce that we are having an uneventful morning in the PCICU this morning! Rebekah was taken off the ventilator around 2:00 this morning, and although she has a nasal cannula with a little oxygen, she is breathing on her own today. We are listening to the familiar beep, beep, beep of the monitors in the PCICU.

The view outside the hotel we are staying at. It is a beautiful fall morning today.

Since Rebekah is in the PCICU, the doctors took the opportunity to do a few other tests as well. This is Rebekah during her EKG yesterday. She slept right through it! You can't see the g-tube due to all of the leads, but it is on her left side about at the level of her belly button. It is clear and kind of rubbery feeling (almost like a pacifier or bottle nipple) and has a 8-10" IV catheter through the center of it. She has not started using it yet, but as soon as we are moved to the step-down unit, they will begin giving her some clear Pedialyte through the g-tube.

Speaking of step-down units, we are moving there just as soon as they have a bed available. We must have come at a peak time because the PCICU was completely full yesterday (the most we had seen previously was all but one bed full) and the step down unit is completely full today. As soon as someone is discharged, we will be moved to 7C and if all goes well, we could be discharged as early as tomorrow!

Rebekah during EKG.

Sleeping beauty. :)

This is a sign that is posted in front of the parking lot at our hotel near two very large trees:

Hmmm.....draw your own conclusions.......

That's it from the PCICU this morning. We are hoping to move to step down soon and have a very quiet, uneventful day. Of course, we will post anything new that happens and try to get some more pictures a little later when Rebekah is awake!

Nancy