Post Op day 4

Yesterday ended up being an awful day for Lalo. He was in frequent pain, he vomited multiple times and his belly was getting super swollen since his digestive system hadn't woken up yet. We have a button we can push to get an extra push of morphine in his iv drip - we pushed that button LOTS yesterday. We eventually got an xray but that looked fine. They also stopped feeds yesterday evening to let his gut rest. Finally, about 2 am we got the diaper we had been waiting for (tmi, I know).

We had some other issues too. He lost yet another iv last night, which sucked since he is still on all iv fluids and pain killers. Luckily, we had an awesome woman come to place his next line. She was super gentle and comforting and used a special vein light to guide her. Lalo was much more relaxed and didn't have his normal iv freak out session. I tried to get her on speed dial but she thought I was joking ;) I was also woken up at 4am but the pediatrician examining Lalo. Apparently, his respiratory rate was pretty high, his heart rate was too high, and his lungs sounded "wet". All worrisome because of his underlying lung disease. But thank god, it was easily fixed by reducing the amounts of iv fluids he was getting. The next step would be a diuretic and we've had enough of those to last a lifetime!

Today we have gotten more smiles from Lalo and his bursts of pain seem to be spaced a little further apart. We are going super slow on his feeds (remember that song and dance?) to try to help him tolerate it. We are currently only doing 5 mls of pedialyte an hour and they don't want to move forward until he is comfortable with that. Since we need to get up to 33/hr and switch to milk it looks like we have at least another day or two at Hotel Hopkins. Caleb and Lalo sr also came to the hospital today and we got to spend some time together and will tomorrow too. Caleb was happy to see mommy and Lalo! And so were we!

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