Just got off the phone with the nurse......Maddie is doing Great!!! You could hear her cooing in the background. They changed her oxygen assistance and down graded it. She took her first form of nourishment today to get her back eating. She loved it and wanted more. She got a little upset when she could only have a little. Because of the lack of blood flow to her lower organs, kidney's, intestines, etc they have to go slow. Now that she has the proper blood flow to those organs they need to make sure they are working. It is a big shock to her system now that they are working again.
Maddie hasn't been wanting to sleep and I having been dying to hold her I finally asked the nurse. I was supposed to leave the hospital at 4:30 to be home for dinner with Katie and Jack. I was late because I was holding Maddie. I have been waiting 5 days to hold her. The nursing staff is absolutely incredible and I wonder how they can do their job. Some of these babies are so sick and they just spend their day loving all over them. Every nurse in the cardiac ward that comes into Maddie's room says she is the cutest baby in the ward. Of course we already knew that. Hopefully, Maddie will be in the progressive care ward by Wednesday. We'll see if she is ready.
We called the hospital three times tonight just to check on her because we needed to spend the evening with Katie and Jack. She is Great. I am going into the Hospital in the morning to be there when the doctors do their rounds so I can get an update. I have included a few photos. There are the views from her room at different parts of the day. Maddie during her physical therapy and a photo showing off her bow. She really is doing great considering this was a major surgery. Enjoy!!
TTFN
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