We had a pretty peaceful day here in the PICU, Robbie was fairly still and would calm down quickly if he did stir at all. There was some talk of us moving to the 6th floor, where we will be the remainder of our trip, but they want to keep us here for a bit. Robbie had some high glucose readings because of the steroid he was on to help his breathing. Because of the high glucose he had to get insulin to lower those levels, which did the trick. Now we are waiting to see how he is going to breath since they stopped the steroid. If he does well without it we will probably move in the next day or so. They took the dressings off his pin spots so we got to see what that looks like, which isn't for the weak stomach people.
Tonight he was moving quite a bit more because he is getting used to the medicines, so now is when the "cocktail" of drugs come into play. They have to keep changing things as he gets used to them so he stays still and sedated. The less he moves, the better the pelvis fuses and the quicker he heals. Based on the last 14 months I think we will have our hands full trying to sedate him because being still wasn't one of his stronger characteristics.
We had our first visitors today as Mimi's cousin Chris and his family came to visit. They live in a suburb of Baltimore and came down for lunch. It was great to meet them and get a mental break for awhile.
I hope that Robbie can have another peaceful night and continue getting the rest and recovery that he needs from the surgery.
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