Kicking Us Out

The cardiologist and the pediatric intensivist came around on rounds this morning and rather cavalierly unplugged Silje’s pacemaker saying “Oh, we think she’ll probably be fine.” Kris’s and my response was “What do you mean you THINK she’ll PROBABLY be fine?!” They laughed. Hmmm. But so they say once the heart goes back into sinus rhythm it’s unlikely to go out of it again. And so far they have been right. She’s been just fine today.

And then later in the day the cardiac surgeon came by with the intesivist and he said he would take out her pacemaker wires and RA line in the morning and then they were kicking us out of the PICU. They are sending us back to the NICU tomorrow. This is a good thing. And so we can begin in earnest the process of learning how to nurse again. Silje has been going to town on the pacifier today, so she’s ready. Hopefully it won’t be too much of a struggle, though they tell us it certainly could be.

They are going to wait on doing the MRI until closer to when they send us home – whenever that will be. She’ll need to be intubated again for that, though only for an hour or so, and they don’t want to mess up her progress with feeding and such.

Silje pretty much slept through the night last night. And consequently has been awake just about all day – with little tiny 10 minute cat naps here and there. She’s been out of bed and in our arms quite a bit, which has been fun.