Day 3 brings much the same as day 2. More recovery and more improvements. They continue to fiddle with his medication cocktail to try and gradually ween him off of a few things. He is showing more swelling today due to the excess fluids in his system but continues to pee like a champ to combat that. They started a nutrition line (TPN) so he'll start to get some calories, amino acids, vitamins, etc. It goes directly into his heart to be immediately distributed and absorbed into his body so his stomach is still sitting idle at the moment.
His oxygen saturations are remaining more stable while needing less intervention to do so. This is a great indication that his lungs are indeed improving. Right now as I write this at 9pm his oxygen is holding nicely at 78% and his blood pressure is at 61/38. Both right where the doctors want it. He's also only getting normal air amounts of oxygen through his ventilator so all that oxygen saturation he is doing all on his own!
Only real alarm of the day was an unplanned echo screening to look at his stent to make sure it didn't move. The stent as shown in this morning's chest x-ray looked quite a bit different then the x-ray I showed on the last post, yesterday's x-ray. They wanted to perform an echo to just make sure the thing wasn't floating around in there. The echo clearly showed the stent, that it passed through the septum, and that blood freely flowed through it. So the stent had not moved. They probably just took the x-ray at a slightly different angle today as opposed to the first two days. A needless scare but if that's all we'll have to deal with then we'll gladly take it.
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