Moving Day

Monday was a pretty uneventful day, but Jace was still doing wonderful. On Tuesday, Feb. 10th, Jace was moved out of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. We were moved to the 6th floor. This is the Cardiac recovery floor. It is more like being in a regular room. This was a big adjustment for us. We went from having a nurse at his side at all times to having a nurse available but only coming in at certain times. As you can probably imagine the next several days were very stressful. We watched his monitors continually. The nurses told us that they would begin preparing us to go home. We were glad to be on this floor because it meant he was improving, but also overwhelmed with everything to learn. They had placed a feeding tube in his nose and we had to learn how to set the pump and give his medicines through a port on his feeding tube. They told us that they would do a swallow study later to see if he could take some by bottle. He weighed 6 lbs 6 ozs. This is only 4 ozs above his birth weight but considering what all he had been through we were thankful for this weight.