another update
Owen was moved to the cardiac ward 3 days ago, his heart rate was too slow and so the external pacemaker was still attached and initiating the beats of his heart, plus naso gastric tube, oxygen and cardiac monitoring.
But yesterday the NG tube and oxygen was taken off and he was allowed to breastfeed whenever he wanted (the previous day he had his first breastfeed and he remembered how to do it - everyone is impressed it was a wonderful moment for me. I have longed to hold him, comfort him while breastfeeding. The pacemaker has now been turned off (for 2 days) and his heart has taken over - beating well.
So the plan for today is to take the pace maker wires out which are still attached to his heart (internally) and then my boy will finally be mine again, this is the final tube/wire etc to come out after surgery. He needs to have cardiac monitoring for 4 hours after the pacemaker wirees are removed and then that can come off too.
Things to worry about now are - his temperature is up between 37 and 38 degrees (they say they see what will happen if it goes over 38 then antibiotics will be started ) and he has low thyroxine levels and has to have a couple of scans to see why it is so low - checking thyroid function etc) He started thyroxine medication.
No word of when we can come home yet but I am thinking it must be sometime next week??
stay tuned.
Owen was moved to the cardiac ward 3 days ago, his heart rate was too slow and so the external pacemaker was still attached and initiating the beats of his heart, plus naso gastric tube, oxygen and cardiac monitoring.
But yesterday the NG tube and oxygen was taken off and he was allowed to breastfeed whenever he wanted (the previous day he had his first breastfeed and he remembered how to do it - everyone is impressed it was a wonderful moment for me. I have longed to hold him, comfort him while breastfeeding. The pacemaker has now been turned off (for 2 days) and his heart has taken over - beating well.
So the plan for today is to take the pace maker wires out which are still attached to his heart (internally) and then my boy will finally be mine again, this is the final tube/wire etc to come out after surgery. He needs to have cardiac monitoring for 4 hours after the pacemaker wirees are removed and then that can come off too.
Things to worry about now are - his temperature is up between 37 and 38 degrees (they say they see what will happen if it goes over 38 then antibiotics will be started ) and he has low thyroxine levels and has to have a couple of scans to see why it is so low - checking thyroid function etc) He started thyroxine medication.
No word of when we can come home yet but I am thinking it must be sometime next week??
stay tuned.
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