11:30am At the 10am visit Rob was sitting up and more awake than we've seen him yet--that was nice. He is so uncomfortable with the ventilator tube still in. He motions for it to be removed--but the drs. are taking it slowly. Certain criteria have to be met before they can do that safely. We wish Rob could speak to let people know what he's feeling.
An Infectious Disease dr. was there so I (Denise) got to ask him lots of questions. He said the culture they took in surgery that showed an infection a few days ago was a contaminant in the OR. Since his chest was open so long it was not a surprise to have that happen. So it was good news that is was nothing in Rob's system originally. He's still on anti-biotics because he has slight fluid in his lungs.
Rob had a kind of tape-like "paddles" attached to his chest so give his heart a small shock to get it to beat in the right rhythm. (This isn't as intense as the heart paddles to start someone's heart if it's stopped.) They were going to sedate him before doing the littlier shock anyways. His heartbeat still has been fast and then slow and back again and the shock should get it back to where it should be.
It has been a bit frustrating to not always have the complete picture. Since we can only go in 2 at a time at 10am, 5pm and 8:15pm for 1/2 hour we ask questions of the nurse--and there are different nurses on each shift. Plus, they're not allowed to give out much info. Then when we get back together it's been hard to get all our facts straight. I mentioned how tough it was to a nurse so she contacted someone and today we got to meet with a social worker. They've been so busy here, she apologized for not having someone get together with us sooner. She will have a doctor or internist get a hold of us today to answer any questions we have.
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