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March 28, 2006
Success
As some of you may have already seen on Prez's livejournal, the procedure was a success, and Dashiell's PDA (Patent Ductus Arteriosis) has been closed with a little plug.
Thanks to all of you for your support, prayers, well wishes etc. It means a lot to us :)
I'm typing this from the hospital, where they actually have internet. I think this is supposed to be a computer for the nurses only, or that's what the nurse from the procedure/recovery floor said, but other patients were using it too, and nobody has said anything. We do also have webtv on the tv screen that's at Dashiell's screened off area, but the keyboard had a bunch of broken keys, and would only go to "livejouralco" [sic], which wasn't much help.
I've caught some broken snatches of sleep here and there over the past few hours. It's hard to sleep in a place like this because you don't have your own room, though there is nobody else on our side of the ward. It's still kind of noisy, you can hear other people's tv's and conversations, and even the nurses at the nurses station and the wanderings around of other staff, as well as the beepings, chirpings, hissings and sputterings of all kinds of machinery. The air is also quite dry, so I woke up with quite a bit of cottonmouth, but I brought along a bunch of bottles with drinks to help (the little hospital café down in the lobby is expensive and a bit of a rip-off).
Supposedly we'll be out of here sometime around or after 10.30am on Wednesday. 10.30 was the time they started "the case", and we're required to be here 24 hours otherwise the insurance apparantly won't cover the procedure. Weird stuff. The night nurse just hooked Dashiell up to an IV again (he was IV-free when we got to this floor earlier this afternoon). I'm not entirely sure what's in it, as I was asleep when they hooked it up to his heplock. I know there's a second dose of antibiotic in there, but that's all I know.
Anyway, time to go hydrate myself a bit more, and then maybe to catch a few more slivers of sleep if I can. Thanks again for your support guys!
Posted on 08:36 PM to: Dashiell