Weekend

Anyhoo. Eric and Zachery were able to come up and spend the day with us on Sunday! Zachery of course always seeks to find something fun to do and bawks at just going in to see Avery. The "on the ball" nurse went and found some toys he could play with in the room and we set a blanket on the floor for him. Worked like a charm.


Later, Eric and Zach went up to the 8th floor for bingo and won/received crayons, coloring books and such. We also took a walk in the arboretum next door. There is a cute path called "fairy and troll path" where you can find little critter homes built by "fairies".

I am happy to say that Avery had a good weekend. She continues to be on the moderate care area (step-down from icu) and has had good, caring nurses all weekend. She also had the room, which holds 3 beds, all to herself so she could rest easier (lucky bonus). Now it's full.

Avery continues with the wound-vac on her incision to help drain infection. She will likely have that on for another 10 days (something that is keeping her here). She is on i.v. antibiotics and will have that run for another 6 weeks (minus a couple days). I'm happy that her new picc line (a more permanent i.v. line) that goes through her liver "trans hepatic" is more out of the way than if it was in her femoral/leg area.

She is looking more like her old self, packing it on a bit. :) The folks working with her are also trying to keep a balance of going down on her diuretics, and keeping her oxygen saturation up enough (so she doesn't sweat or work too hard when she eats). Diuretics are helping get rid of excess fluids from her lungs.