Post Op Day 8 - Rumor Has It. . .

Landon woke up a few times last night, we think from some pain but we got some pain meds in him and got him settled down and luckily he slept in a little bit this morning.  They have switched him to "as needed" pain meds now, which we are ok with since the chest tubes are out and there should be less pain and discomfort to manage.  We'll still stay on top of his pain meds while he's awake but hopefully it will be a good thing that he doesn't have to be woken up to take them over night since they aren't "scheduled". 

We have taken him on several wagon rides around the unit since we got up to CPCU but yesterday after chest tubes came out - we did lots of getting out of bed! We walked up to the nurse's station to say hi to everyone, played on the floor in our room for a little bit with Landon's cars, sat on the window ledge in the room and spotted airplanes and after dinner we ventured out to the activity room on our floor. They have all kinds of toys, crafts, movies and fun things for the kids to do. It's amazing to see them just be kids in there and kind of forget about everything else for a little while. Landon had a blast and was walking all over the place to see all the different toys! We are still a little wary of letting him walk without one of us holding his hand or standing right over him because he's still a little wobbly and we want to make sure he doesn't fall in a way that is painful or dangerous. But he is walking around and bending over and everything so he's already bouncing back quite a bit physically.  We went back to the activity rooom this morning and I have a feeling we'll be there again later today!

Chest xrays this morning were tough as usual (getting tougher by the day it seems) but the good news is that his xray looked pretty clear.  This is HUGE news since his chest tubes are out and there isn't much fluid building up that needs to come out.  During rounds they decided to bring him down to a little bit more of a "normal" dose of his diuretic and see how he tolerates it in his xray tomorrow.  If that xray also comes back clear, we will probably go home tomorrow (!!).  We do not take that "IF" lightly though, so although we'll be ready if they give us the go ahead, we won't be surprised if they keep him over the weekend.  Home or not, it's great to see Landon back in action and getting back to his old self more each day. 

So Rumor Has It that we might be going home tomorrow!  We'll keep you posted. . .