Cranial expansion surgery post op day 1 Update #2

Things are moving QUICKLY. An what that means is, they removed the arterial line because Michelle's pressures are as stable as stable comes, the removed an IV from her left hand cause it clotted, and they removed the femoral central line in her pelvis.

She has come down A LOT on her morphine and tylenol need. We have been able to get her to wake up and talk to us. Most of the time it is for a good amount of time. She is eating and drinking and the nurse has turned her saline that is running into her PICC line down 5 times today. The next step is off. They are still keeping a close eye on her blood count to make sure she doesn't require another transfusion and her sodium levels since they turned off her hypertonic saline.

Everyone here is very surprised at the amount of progress she has made only being 24 hours post op. As of now her eyes are swollen completely shut. The Neurologists aren't too happy about that because they really wanna look at her eyes. But they are happy because some of Michelle's tone from her CP seems to be returning, which means she is regaining the use of all her limbs ( I would know I got whacked trying to help the nurse take out the lines). These are good things. Very good things.

My hope is to be able to move her out of the PICU by tomorrow. If they doctors don't think she is ready then they wont but they did say if they move her there will be a PICU nurse assigned to her for at least 24 hours more so that they can monitor her sodium and should it drop they can restart the hypertonic saline and move her back to PICU. They say the only way to get where you want to go is to put one foot forward right? So if we have a setback I am alright with that.

Let me tell you something I have learned about since being here. It's called Healing Touch. They have been having trained RN's come around and provide the service for Michelle. She's seem to respond very well to it. Before you break out your voodoo dolls take a breathe. Tonight she offered to do it for me. I said sure why not! Let me get a first hand glimpse into what this is all about. Well here's what its all about folks:

We all have energy about our bodies, were full of it! Both positive and negative. Healing Touch is about helping to rid the body of the negative energy. Through the power of touch and not touching they very amazingly help you to help the negative leave your body. I am not even kidding, she asked me if I have been carrying any stress or any pain and I have it's all been tension in my neck. After about 10 minutes I couldn't feel the tension. Look this stuff up and quit sticking me in the eye with your voodoo needles. This stuff works! As long as you keep an open mind to it you can honestly FEEL IT.

Needless to say I asked them to come back tomorrow to do another pain session with Michelle. And I will be taking a class on this ASAP. I want to learn. Look it up.