A day in the hospital life

Mac had a good night. They silenced most of the alarms in our room so we didn’t wake up every time he had PVCs or his heart rate dropped or rose beyond his set parameters (which is constant bw 6pm - 11 pm for some reason.)
Today we went for a big walk and I only had to carry him 1/2 the time. He ate a 6 in sub, 3 breakfast sausages and a popsicle. He’s only on 1 diuretic now - but a larger dose, a blood pressure med, enalipril, and a med to lower his uric acid. 

Tomorrow he is getting a 3D echo to try to see if he has had any visible improvement in his heart function. It is probably much too soon to see progress but I still pray we see some.
I also pray the doctors feel he is well enough to get discharged soon. He has been in the hospital for 26 days since the beginning of July. This is by far his longest hospitalization and it is not good for him or any of us actually. The thought of living in the hospital for a year, waiting for a heart transplant, sounds awful 😞 I pray this pacemaker gives us many more years before we have to start talking about transplant again.