Day 4 - Hospital (Hip Surgery) Happy April Fool's Day

Last night was pretty good.  The machines woke me up more then Missy Miss she slept fairly well.  We had a little scare around 12:30 am.  Two machines were going off at the same time and it was time for her medicine.  She had been sleeping and possibly dreaming and when she "woke" up she had her arm frailing and crying.  It almost looked like a seizure but she could of been caught up in the dream.  She kept saying "I can't do this".  She came out of it fine and took her medicine and went back to sleep. 

We just did another blood draw (5:45 am) and her heart rate was at 116 around 4 am so that is good. We will be washing her hair today. She is acting fine right now and has not cried at all since she was woke up for the blood, medicines, and turning her.  She is watching TV currently.  The night nurse just asked if they talked to us about discharging today and I said No but at least it was brought up by someone. - 6:00 am

Well two steps forward and one step back as they were pulling the three drains out from under her cast the last one broke. The doctor does not think it is inside but he is not positive of that. So he is going to talk to her doctor and they might have to take her back to OR and recast her under sedation... unfortunately this is not an April Fool's joke.  I also talk to her ped about her episode last night and she believes it was night terrors with being woke up abruptly and all the medicatioin - 8:15am

Well we are here for at least another day. They want to keep her 24 hours after fever to make sure it does not come back. They will take her to OR early tomorrow morning and lightly sedate her. The first step will be cutting a whole in the cast to see if they can get to the tube that broke.  If they can not they will cut the cast off and hopefully get it then.  If it is still in the skin then they will make a slight cut to extract it.  Not a happy camper in sight at the moment. 8:30 am

Dani got to escape her room today and try out a wheel chair like the one we are going to have.  We took a two laps around the floor and a trip to the Garden. Pictures below

The X-Rays revealed that the tubing is still in her soooooo she will have this cast removed, they will do a small incision to get the tubing out and then get a new cast. We are so excited about her being put under again ... NOT! Continued prayers that tomorrow goes smoothly and she can sleep in her own bed tomorrow night.  On a bright note this is the wheel chair we will be taking home and she LOVED it and did not want to get out.  She also ate chicken nuggets, fries, and 2 apple juice for dinner tonight.  Since she is an add we will not know when she is going into surgery until they come get us in the morning. - 6:15 pm