We Have Poop!

Well the big news for today is, we have poop.  Finally, this morning, she was able to have a small bowel movement.  If you have ever been in the hospital post surgery, you know that's a big celebration around these parts.  The rest of today (Monday) has been pretty good for Sloan.  She's been up moving around, took a good nap, painted a wooden horse in the Child Life room, ate a good dinner, and has been goofing around with mom & dad.

Found her in bed with stickers all over her face - goofy girl!

They also separated her chest tubes this morning so they can begin to measure if one is putting out more than the other.   Her center chest tube was taken out yesterday so if one of her peripheral chest tubes is putting out less than the other, they could pull that one as well.  They decided to do this because Sunday Sloan had some major back pains.  She pretty much laid in bed all day moaning about her back.  They found out it was due to her chest tubes moving and at least one of them now pressing on her back.  There isn't much they can do for that except monitor it with pain meds and continue to work towards getting the drainage tubes out.  So our new motto will be...drains, drains, go away.

Sloan continues to have a hard time with all the oral medications she has to take.  Many of them cause her to gag/have an upset tummy, so we've had a few baths and outfit changes over the past few days.  Kyle and I are beginning to learn the order and timing of giving her medications in order to prevent her from getting sick.  We are still perfecting this, but it's a trial and error process.  You can say we've had lots of errors (aka: lots of puke)!  :)

One of her, many, baths the past two days. She pretty much hated
each one (and this shampoo cap) so always had this sad face.  

Goals remain the same for tomorrow - eating, drinking, bowel moment, and getting out of bed!