Morning update

Let’s start out by saying, Michael is way more calm and collected then myself and does such a better job calming Blaise then myself. (No shocker to those who know me!!) So grateful for him!! He pulled the all-nighter, mom would have been a nervous wreck. 

The true rockstar is Blaise. He is blowing my mind how calm and cool he is. He started waking up around 8 and never cried or complained. He’d calmly ask what they were doing, requests sips of water and calmly talk. After they drew the 8 pm blood gasses, they informed us his lactate level was high. They had the picu doctor come in and they called Dr Alli, the surgeon who was assisted Dr Hammel. They decided to draw them every hour instead of two. If there was no improvement they were gonna try fluids (opposite of what they normally want to do after heart surgery) to see if that would help. Blaise’s were 2.9, anything above 2 is concern. At their next draw they were 2.5 and midnight 2. Hallelujah! Also, they were working on fixing his heparin levels as his chest tube output increased too much. 

I headed for rainbow house around midnight, and got back around 6 to switch mike. 

I got back at six this morning and learned Blaise threw up right after midnight. They stopped his drinking and switched back to ice chips and gave him zofran. It sounds like his pain levels increased during the night and they started back on morphine and got him an ice pack for his back to try and help. 

He was on blood pressure meds to lower it, and had to change to one to raise it during night. 

He has to be on heparin blood thinner, but his chest tube blood drainage increased way to much so they totally stopped it and restarted around 6 am. 

He was complaining of his chest hurting so bad this morning " the worst pain he could ever think" in his words so more morphine again.

Besides the obvious medical goals, others are getting him sitting in chair and walking today. 

We are grateful, we feel blessed. Blaise keeps heading the right direction.