Surgery Complete!

His fourth (and hopefully final, at least while we are here) surgery is complete and went well. He now has four chest tubes, an IV in his foot, an IV in his left hand, at Artery line in his right arm, a central line, a tube for the vent and a tube for his stomach, so that is 10 tubes coming out of his body! And he might get his catheter back in later this evening too. Dr. Rouse was pleased with how surgery went and mentioned that when there is less than 10-15 ml of fluid coming out of each side, they will start feeding him the breast milk through a tube. If that goes well, meaning no increases or color changes in the fluid coming out of the chest tubes,then we can start talking about removal of the chest tubes. Yeah! We were just back in the module with him and he looks fine. Sleeping away! They said his post-op blood gas was excellent. Hopefully he has a good night and the drainage will taper as quickly as the left did after the pleuradesis on Friday.