RollersInVegas

I'm SUCH a dork!! I'm at the RMH (Joe's pulling night shift again) and I have internet access...but, I left the camera in the room! Well...I know you guys are waiting for pictures...but, I'm not going back. We'll try again tomorrow!
As for Mr. Isaac....he's off oxygen (again). Satting in the upper 90's (like a champ!). He's off all of his iv meds...everything he takes now is through his g-tube...which is: (drum roll please....) prevacid, lasix, aldactone, methadone, ativan, potassium (which will soon be stopped), baclofen, prednisone, some other type of phosphorus potassium something, and two different breathing treatments every 6 hours. WHOOOO! They said that it could take a couple of weeks to get him off the narcotics and months to get off the breathing treatments. It appears that the lungs take quite a beating during the unifocalization surgeries and need help staying puffy! This is all nothing that we can't handle....BRING IT ON! Isaac's SLOWLY gaining back his weight. Not yet up to 14 pounds yet, but we're working on it. He's been on continuous feeds...where we give him 35cc's every hour. We're doing to start compressing that tonight where we will give him 70cc's over 30 minutes every 2 hours and then tomorrow, we'll give him 105 over 45 minutes every 3 hours until we get to the feeding schedule that we were on before we got here...150cc's over 1hour every 4 hours. (I can't believe I got all of that straight!). He's still VERY cranky. It's the drug withdrawals and the steroids that he's on...he better be glad that I love him and think he's cute! I try holding him each day and he won't let me...he just screams louder until I put him back in the bed snuggled up with his stuffed animals. (What a stinker!). His hands don't stink anymore...if you were wondering. But, boy...I can't wait to give him a bath. I'm sure that he's got things growing in all kinds of places! We changed his mickey button to his new size...except, now that he's lost weight...the button doens't fit very well...there's a little leakage around it. So, Joe and I are changing the dressings alot and the wound nurse will be by on Monday to see if he needs a different size. It's just a little raw around the edges...nothing like it was last week. All in all...he's doing good. They are trying to get us discharged on Tuesday...and I can't wait!!!
See you guys then!!
(I'll try to put on my thinking cap and remember the camera tomorrow...but, you know how my mind works lately...)