Boring and uneventful sums up Mike's second day in ICU. All of the medical teams---ENT, Maxofacial, ICU, and orthopeadic are impressed with how good he looks. Even though he looks good they are following Wadsworths orders that he stay in bed with as little movement as possible until 8 pm Monday. He's down from two IV lines to one. The Foley catheter was removed as well. I know....TMI, but we measure progress in the decrease in tubes and lines being removed from his body. I counted three drainage tubes today, two in the neck and one in the left arm. Nurse Michelle thought that those drains might be removed in the next couple of days.
He gets flap checks every six hours around the clock by one of several ENT interns. Their average age is 18, seriously. This is the most important test they do all day and all it entails is a little pin prick on the outside and inside of his mouth where the skin tissue was grafted. If he bleeds all is good, no blood then back to square one. Extra vibes and prayers are needed at 6am, noon, 6pm and midnight. Set your alarm, please.
Mike is getting better at communicating with his body language even shooing one Doc out of the room when she told him that she really didn't have anything else to say because he looked so good. The poor, young, really young orthopedic guy made the mistake of mentioning that if he was still here in two weeks that they could do the follow-up visit in the hospital. Michael cocked his finger at his head as in "shoot me" if I'm still here in two weeks. The poor guy was so shocked that he looked at me and shook his head. I'm pretty sure we will not see him again.
Thanks to our niece, Mara, brother-in-law, John and good friend, Andy for visiting this afternoon and breaking up the day for both of us.
The good vibes, well wishes and prayers are really working so keep it up Team Mike! Can't wait to see the cards start pouring in. If you didn't read last nights post, I'm starting a funny, irreverent get well card contest. Mike will be the judge....
Take care,
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