Sunday, August 19, 2012

Less pain-still big belly

We only had to push her morphine button 5 times yesterday and give 1 dose of valium.  And no meds all night.  So that's pretty darn good I think!

Her stomach is still huge.  She did have a medium BM during the night, but there is a lot more to come.

We have not restarted feeds until her stomach goes down.  We are going to try and get her hair washed and up in her chair so she and we can go to church here in the hospital.

She is awake, no oxygen, not too much pain and doing well.

The "long" term plan is this...get stomach to go down, restart feeds, switch from IV meds to oral (g-tube) meds, then go home.

2 comments:

Diana said...

Maybe she doesn't have to push that hard (Becca' doesn't when we stay up on her meds) but it seems like with back surgery that it could hurt to get it out. Like maybe the stars need to align with the pain being gone and having the energy to help push it out, etc. I'm so glad things finally worked out!!

Amy said...

Sweet! That's a good plan.