Day One post op

At 5:15am we just got the call that your tube was out and you were upset so dad and I were straight up to you!

You had your breathing tube out at 4:20 and were very sad straight away. You cried until about 8:30 and were so thirsty, you can only have 25mls of milk at a time to not overload your heart. They took your central line from your neck and took a few superfluous lines away so by the time they took you over to the ward at 10, you looked much more like yourself!

You've had a day full of tears but that's to be expected. Your blood pressure has been high and your kidney function tests are a bit off so they're giving you some more fluids to try and flush them and putting you back on your diuretics to help level you out and give your heart as much rest as possible to heal. Your oxygen drops right down when you cry and your skin goes all funny but again, they think it's just everything settling from surgery. 

All in all they're really happy with you. You had a couple of ventricular fibrillations during surgery but nothing since. 

You've had a change of dressings on your chest as they were a bit 'oozy' due to the heparin that thins your blood. You're only on morphine and Panadol now for pain relief and once the drains are out, they will stop the morphine too. It makes your face itchy, just like me!