Morning 2 post op

M slept fitfully last night. The nurse was really great at shushing him before I woke up so I actually got about 3 straight hours of sleep. Doesn't sound awesome to my preMacsen self but sounds like the best sleep ever to the current version of me. He is on morphine, atavan, dexsomething and none of those were keeping him comfortable anymore so what do they try? Benadryl. Knocked him right out. Crazy baby! He's been sleeping almost an hour. Phew.
He's had another X-ray around 5 am and is on 2 diuretics. Still has chest tube and arterial line, RA line so still not allowed to hold him - though when the nurses get desperate enough to calm him they bend that rule with lots of supervision- nasal cannula with o2. Ready to get that chest tube out. It's not really draining much and it has to hurt coming out of his chest and bouncing around everytime he moves. The same with all the lines.
Still waiting for rounds to hear the plan. They will probably have to place another iv if they take that RA out. They need to be able to give him stuff in a hurry if he starts to go downhill but the booger has tiny veins - pretty common in these babies and they'll try a few times to stick him but can't get a vein. Torturous for him. Today his bandage should come off too.