Whew!

Ok, We made it through today after 20 hours, a catnap and some visits with the nurse. His nurse tonight is Judy and she is wonderful. Carter is currently in PICU Room 8 at the end of the hall. We'll see if we are able to load up some fresh pictures. If any of Carter's heart friends are in the PICU, stop in as we'd like to meet you. We'll also see if we can find any of you that are in PICU.

Carter is currently on a ventilator and some pain meds. He has two tubes in his body for drainage and his heart is wired for any emergency heart arrythmia that might occur. They'll pull those before he goes home and suture them up. He also has pretty heavy load of diurects to get fluids out of his system. They are also treating him for pulmonary hypertension so he'll come back home on oxygen but its days will be numbered as his lungs get back up to speed now that the lungs aren't dealing with screwy bloodflow from his heart.

Of course, what would Carter be without being...Carter. He still fights the nurse to keep his head on his right side. He slid down his crib mattress so they made a nest for him and they safety pinned his hands to the mattress because he tries to grab his ventilator hose...this would be bad. Anyway, they retaped his ventilator tube and Carter sucks on the tube like a pacifier so it is doing good for him anyway.

He is resting confortable and tomorrow brings a new day. He opens his eyes every once in a while and we rubs his hands and feet when we can. It's great to have this part of him fixed.

We'll update more tomorrow. Have a great night.

Love,
Alan & Kristi