Post-Op Day 1: 7 Hours Later

Ryan has been in the PICU since 10 am and he's doing pretty well. The swelling has definitely increased some but he remains comfortable in appearance. He has woken up a couple of times - a few of them he just slowly looked around and took everything in. He clearly isn't himself but I don't blame him for acting disoriented ... aside from the morphine, this little man has apparated (nerd alert) multiple places in the 12 hours - he woke up in our bed (sorry I'm not sorry), was shuffled sleepily into the car seat, to the waiting room, to the surgery prep room, operating room, and now in a big hospital bed with a lot of friendly faces - old and new. That's a whole lot of movement for an itty bitty, and might explain why sometimes he wakes up and is pretty upset. 

While I was initially optimistic that his eyes wouldn't swell shut, the nurse said it doesn't look good. Every few hours they check his pupils and she said that his eyes are already getting more and more swollen. Fortunately his oxygen nose-tube thingy is gone. That was one thing that was clearly annoying him and he kept scratching and pulling it out. He has been rubbing his face a lot lately. We think this may be out of habit (he always rubs his face when he's tired and obviously he's very sleepy right now) however we are watching to make sure that it isn't an adverse reaction to the morphine.He's also been constantly kicking off all the blankets, so he's basically just chillin in a diaper (with his cow lovie "Bessie") by his side. We finally got to feed him a little after hours of watching him make that cute fishy-sucking face. Clearly, he was enjoying lots and lots of milk in his dreams. We fed him about an ounce of milk and stopped because we didn't want him to get sick and he was not thrilled about it and made sure it was known. 

Poor guy was inhaling it ...
probably because he hasn't eaten in 15 hours.

He's pretty out of it but still managed to enjoy his favorite TV show, Pocoyo, on the iPad. Those colors and music must be pretttttty trippy to watch while on morphine.  

NEWS FLASHHHHH: Dr. Keating just came in and told us that his vitals look great and he's generating lots of red blood cells. In addition, the blood tube coming out from his head is slowing and starting to clot. He then told the nurses that Ryan is doing SO well that if something happens in the ICU and they need more beds, he can go to a "normal" room tonight! He said that he's the "healthiest kid in the ICU." What whattttt?! Ryan and I fist-pounded over it.