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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Post-op

2:45pm-we are in the recovery area with Brody! He's doing great! They gave him apple juice and some morpheme. If he can keep the apple juice down, he can start working towards a normal diet. 


The head dressing is just gauze over each ear with a Velcro band to hold it on. 


Drinking some apple juice and being nosey of the other patients. The dressing on his arm is for his vitals and his IV. 

5:45pm-Brody woke up around 5. He had taken a little nap. We are in his own room now. Currently he is lounging back, eating ice cream, and watching college football. What more could you need?


He seems to be doing really good pain wise. So far he hasn't been vomiting either. His main mission right now is trying to fugue out how to get the IV out if his arm! 

11:40pm-watching Nemo and going in and out of sleep. Brody is in a little pain. They just have him some more tylenol. So far he passes out for awhile once it kicks in.  He's been pulling his monitors off and keeping the nurse on her toes. Although he is eating, he isn't drinking much. They have had him on fluids since surgery. The nurse said with them they don't always feel thirsty. We sat him up for a few minutes and he got a nose bleed. The ENT on call said that unless it was really gushing blood, it wasn't a concern. It stopped right away and he hasn't had another one. 


5:00am-Woke up when the nurse had to take his temperature. Our night nurse, May, has been awesome. She thinks Brody is hilarious. He will only let her use the stethoscope if he holds it against himself. He moves it back and forth for her too. She had been taking vitals all night without waking him up, but the way he was positioned she couldn't get it under his arm with out disturbing him. He woke up and ate some chocolate pudding. I was able to get him to drink some fruit punch too. Jordan rocked him for a little bit and they watched Rio (has a lot of colorful birds in it that Brody thinks is absolutely the funniest thing ever). We put him back in the crib with the iPad and the TV. What a life! May just gave him some more Tylenol and he passed right out! We should be getting discharged in the next few hours. 



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