Erica seems to be on the mend. They put an external pace maker on her just incase she needed it, as when you are working on the septum that devides the atriums, it could cause a disruption in either complete lose or irregular heartbeat (also known as an arythmia).
She's healing nicely, blood pressure has be stable with the help of med's, and she got weaned off the vent. Erica got her tube out on January 26th and was put onto high flow O2 without the Nitric Oxide. Erica also got one drainage tube out (the one that leads to her left lung to drain the bleeding around it).
Every day she was loosing one more cord/tube or two. Erica even got weaned down to the low flow oxygen.
By Thursday January 26th, Erica had only 3 things attached to her.
1. her nasal prongs
2. the external pace maker
3. her stat leads
Friday morning came and we made it just out side Erica's unit when our cell rang. It was Erica's nurse Jex Roy, calling to tell us that Erica was going back to Sask! We were shocked as Her open heart surgery was only on Monday and we didn't think that we would be going home this soon. Aunty Jess and Kris were also coming up today to meet Erica for the first time, so we were afraid that they wouldn't make it but they arrived just in the nick-of-time. So because there was only two people allowed in at a time Aunty Jess came in while Dave sat outside the unit with little Walker and waiting for Kris as he was parking the truck. We sat and talked to Erica for about min as we were leaving right away, we went out and then Dave and Kris went in. No sooner then them getting in to see Erica, Kris came walking out telling me to go in as the ambulance team is there and Erica is leaving now. So it was a short visit but a good one!
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