We are back in the step-down unit! All of the girls upstairs were sad to see him leave and everyone else was happy to see him back!

Dr. Hosenpud said that we then reviewed the CT scan a second there "might have been something that could have been" a clot. He said there were so many when they did the surgery that 1 may have broken off and exploded into lots of little clots. He's going to do an echo tomorrow to see if there is anything else going on. Most of you know that we are born with a hole between the two sides of our hearts and it closes after time. He said that sometimes when a VAD is implanted that hole can reopen. So that's basically what he wants the echo for. But he was pleased with his progress.

He has the same respiratory therapist as yesterday and she was really impressed with how he bounced back. She thought he looked much better. He's down to 5 liters of oxygen which is a very low dose from what he had been on. He's had the cannula on all morning and is doing well. He did sleep with the mask on to let his nose breathe some and not get so dried out. Hopefully that will help him.

So, things have stabilized again. If something else comes up I'll get it posted. But, if there isn't a post, it doesn't mean that something is wrong. A lot of this process is just healing and no excitement.

The surgeon just came in and said they were going to take the catheter out today. That will really make him happy!