He's in the CICU now and sleeping

Kai is in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit now. As soon as I walked thru the dept door, his room was right in front of me and he saw me. I waived to him and he waived back, then I went to the desk to see if I could see him yet and when I turned back around he was crying. They told us the nurse wasn't ready for us yet and to go back to the waiting room and would come get us when we could see him. Well, we waited for an hour and it was after 3:00 so I figured the shifts had changed and they probably didn't tell the shift coming on that we were waiting, so I went back and asked if I could see him. They said yes. They were giving him back the blood they took from him before the surgery, so he did not need a transfusion. I said Hi to him and he asked for water, but he can't have anything by mouth yet. The nurse offered him a wet washcloth to suck on, but he refused that. He is pretty pale (yes, we can be more pale than we are!)

I asked him about his pain and he said he didn't have any, he was just thirsty and he wanted a blanket that was stuck under him out. He would wake up every so often, but then they upped his pain meds and that has pretty much put him out. His blood pressure was pretty low, so they increased his fluids, but it wasn't coming up much so they ended up giving him a dose of calcium which make the heart pump harder to increase the blood pressure. The top number is now in the 80's which is good, but the bottom number is staying in the 30's/low 40's, but they are not worried about that.

He can be sound asleep but as soon as the nurse goes to pull the cover back around his mid section, boy that hand flies up there to cover himself up. Funny how quickly he can move when his modesty is in jeopardy:-)

My mom & Jim have left to go back home now. They were able to see him, but he was sleeping so he won't know they were in the room.

Dr Sharkey came over and checked on him and said she would be back on Monday to see him as she was off for the weekend, but planned to at least check up on him by computer.

The nurse said w/ the pain med, he will probably sleep most of the time for the first 24 hrs. The is only a small little straight chair in the room, not even one of those that recline, so I am not sure I will be sleeping in the room. My back just can't take it, but I may sleep in one of the reclining chairs in the parent room. I went in there and man, there sure are a lot of sleeping parents.

I was supposed to go have blood drawn today, but didn't make it to the lab in time and they are closed on the weekends, so I guess they won't get it until Monday. The lady who called me said it wasn't a big deal if I couldn't get there today, but it would be nice to get it ahead of time.

That's all I can think of now. My brain & body need some food and sleep desparately.

Ta Ta!