They took her chest tube out around 4pm today. Apparently she watched the surgeon pull it out and hardly flinched! He was pretty impressed. So was I- we left the room for it so we were out of the way. i don't think I would have been watching even if we were there.
She was able to eat some Popsicles, a few bites of a sandwich, a slice of cucumber and some diced peaches.
She is doing really well. The nipride is off. So is the morphine. They can give her a bolus if she needs something. They have been giving her zofran (like strong gravol- all too familiar to me from when hailey had her chemo) so she won't get an upset stomach again. She had thrown up a couple times in the night.
She is breathing better too. She had been a bit coarse from the intubation for the MRI and surgery.
If they had a bed available upstairs she could probably get out of the ICU. They are hoping for tomorrow. They can take out the arterial line and central line before she goes to 4C
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