Andrea had a fairly good day today. She was awake most of the day and alert and not in too much pain, except for dressing change repositioning her etc. She is up to 45 mls per hour tube feeds, most of her blood pressure support meds are off, they are not giving blood transfusions at all now, she has been restarted on heparin to reduce her chances of clotting her heart mate pump. She was finally feeling good enough that we had our christmas gift exchange around her bed, Jeff and Twila were with us and she was very thrilled. Today Dr Sobey the intensivist who is also a gastro surgeon and has been following her very closely, said he hoped she would be moved out of the CVICU and onto the ward this week. They are hoping to get her weaned off her ventilator ASAP and be able to remove her trache. It may be somewhat unrealistic to think she could be moved out of the CVICU this week, don't want to have our hopes set too high. It is very late so I will close.
Thanks, Maynard
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