The Glenn: Post Op. Day 2

Stockton is doing relatively well. They took out his breathing tube last night and removed his NG tube. He had a spell of atrial tachycardia and his heart rate shot up to the 200's. The doctors assume it was because his heart was irritated during surgery. They put him on a Esmolol to help control it. This afternoon Stockton was able to have his first bottle. He ate so fast that it made him fall right to sleep. He is on pain meds as needed and seems to be tolerating it well. He had a pulmonary artery line that was placed in his neck so they could measure the PA pressures. During this surgery pressure changes so much that it is very important to measure it. The nurse, Jana, removed the PA line a few hours ago. All of the nurses and doctors keep telling me how big Stockton has become. They are really impressed with his progress and that makes us very happy. One thing I wanted to mention was that Stockton had a leaky tricuspid valve that caused some blood to regurgitate backward in his heart. Dr. McKenzie, Stockton's surgeon, was able to fix that because he found a little cleft that was causing it. Dr. McKenzie sewed up the cleft and he said Stockton has NO MORE regurgitation! Well, at least we hope not. I am sure we will have many echocardiograms to really see. Setts and I are doing well. We are both really stressed but joke around to lighten our mood. I couldn't ask for a better husband.