Day 118
Izzie's pre-op day at Boston Children's Hospital.
Today has been very long. We had to be here at 7:30a to check in. They gave us wicked cool temporary badges as seen below. Then we got bloodwork done. They had a hard time finding her veins. Must be a Fuchs thing. They tried both arms and she screamed the entire time :( Her potassium levels came back a little high but nothing to worry about.
Then she has a chest x-ray but we weren't able to take pics of that.
After, they did an ekg (seen below) and then they measured her height (20.5 inches), weight (8lbs, 8oz), and head circumference (36cm). They checked her blood pressure which since she was screaming was high. Her pulse and oxygen were fine.
Then we had our surgical consult where we found out the nitty gritty step-by-step details of her surgery tomorrow. I will detail those tomorrow.
Then we went on a tour of both the cardiac ICU and step down level cardiac ICU.
Then we had our anesthesia consult.
Then on to Izzie's sedated echo where they fed her this nasty stuff that was supposed to knock her out but since she couldn't eat past 6:30a and the echo was at 1p... she woke up after 45 minutes SCREAMING and downed 5 oz.
Then, because she was technically born a preemie (only by 5 days) since she was sedated they had to admit her to watch her lungs over night. So we are in a shared room (BOOOOO!) where only one of us can sleep over with her in the cardiac step down unit.
Then we got real IDs made.
Izzie had the IV put in her left arm which you can see in the picture of Crystal holding her below.
She basically slept most of the day after the sedated echo.
We should hear from neuro tomorrow about her brain.
Today has been very long. We had to be here at 7:30a to check in. They gave us wicked cool temporary badges as seen below. Then we got bloodwork done. They had a hard time finding her veins. Must be a Fuchs thing. They tried both arms and she screamed the entire time :( Her potassium levels came back a little high but nothing to worry about.
Then she has a chest x-ray but we weren't able to take pics of that.
After, they did an ekg (seen below) and then they measured her height (20.5 inches), weight (8lbs, 8oz), and head circumference (36cm). They checked her blood pressure which since she was screaming was high. Her pulse and oxygen were fine.
Then we had our surgical consult where we found out the nitty gritty step-by-step details of her surgery tomorrow. I will detail those tomorrow.
Then we went on a tour of both the cardiac ICU and step down level cardiac ICU.
Then we had our anesthesia consult.
Then on to Izzie's sedated echo where they fed her this nasty stuff that was supposed to knock her out but since she couldn't eat past 6:30a and the echo was at 1p... she woke up after 45 minutes SCREAMING and downed 5 oz.
Then, because she was technically born a preemie (only by 5 days) since she was sedated they had to admit her to watch her lungs over night. So we are in a shared room (BOOOOO!) where only one of us can sleep over with her in the cardiac step down unit.
Then we got real IDs made.
Izzie had the IV put in her left arm which you can see in the picture of Crystal holding her below.
She basically slept most of the day after the sedated echo.
We should hear from neuro tomorrow about her brain.
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