Day Thirteen

Esa continues to recover in the CICU. He's been here longer than expected but with his poor breathing before and after surgery it's not a surprise to anyone. Apparently the night before, Esa threw up, probably while being suctioned and was pretty irritable before of withdrawals from the sedatives he had been taking for so long. Today, however he was very calm and comfortable all day, even when the nurses were bugging him. Today he went from a peep of 10 to a peep of 6 in a fairly quick amount of time but they raised him back up to a peep of 7 just because he seemed to be working a little harder than they would have liked. A peep is a measurement of pressure they put into the lungs to help the baby inflate his chest. They didn't want Esa working too hard because if he got exhausted he could risk having a lung collapse. Otherwise Esa continues to finish up with most of his meds and is looking amazing better than he has. No more swelling which is especially nice.