Dan spent the night with Ethan while I slept at the RMH for a change. I Since we're going to be here a little longer than we first thought, I got up early & did a load of laundry before heading back over here to the hospital.
Since Ethan's stable & making good (albeit slow) progress, Dan decided to go into work for a few hours today. Never really got an update on how it went overnight but Ethan did get off oxygen around midnight last night!
The chest X-ray this morning looked a little better but there's still some fluid so they decreased his frequency of Lasix (diuretic) & added another diuretic to help him continue to pee off the excess fluid. I think they've seen enough drainage from his right chest tube that they feel it's OK to pull it today!
There's also talk of trying to make room for him up on the floor today, but if that works out, it probably wouldn't be until much later today.
So, we're just going to continue hanging out here for noe. Still plan to stay on same schedule as yesterday to get up & walk every 2-3 hours. We took our first walk at 10am & it's almost 10:45 & Ethan's still not back in bed yet - he's been sitting up in the recliner for the past 40 minutes! They want him out of bed ad much as possible today so he can recover faster & keep the fluid draining off his lungs. He still fussed a little during the walk but didn't shed any tears this time, so that's progress!
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