Post-Op Visit

So I know this is a few days late but I figured I could still post it. We had Peyton's post-op visit on Wednesday. My mom came down and picked up Tanner and Mason so that I wasn't lugging them around the hospital as well as Peyton and his oxygen. Peyton did really well during the visit...considering. He cried while they did his chest x-rays. I kept telling him that there were going to be NO pokies but he still cried. Then we went back and they weighed him. That was pretty traumatic for him. We went to our room and they took his sats, blood pressure, and did an EKG. He did awesome for those things. He was satting at 95 so the medical assistant had me take off his oxygen and see what he would do. At that point, the lowest he dropped was 92! He was amazing! Then the doctor and nurse practitioner came in to see him. The doctor said he looks really good and told us NO MORE OXYGEN! (Yet I still have it in the house because I haven't called the company to have them come and get it!) He also said to come back in 6 weeks to meet with Peyton's cardiologist. The Nurse Practitioner cut off the string hanging out from his stitches where his chest tube was. Then she talked to us about a study they were doing. She said if we wanted to partcipate, it would be a blood draw that day and then two more within the next year. I told her we would do it as long as they got it on the first poke. Well, we made our way to the lab and the tech wasn't so good! She poked him, moved it around a little bit, and then started to get a little bit of blood. And then she bursted the vein. I told her we were done. I asked her to call the nurse practitioner and tell her we weren't going to do it. She did and I think she felt bad for Peyton. He just cried and cried. So I told him we would go get some ice cream. And then he stopped. He was so brave and I felt so bad for voluntarily putting him through that. But other than that, it was a great visit and hopefully in 6 weeks, we can start to wean the diuretics. They also didn't touch the incision that is still healing from being opened a couple of times. We'll just keep an eye on it!

While Peyton and I went to the doctor, Mason and Tanner went with my mom to the Church History Museum. So we finished up and met them there. It was way cool! The boys had so much fun and it was definitely good for Mason to do something fun while we did the hard stuff. Here are some pictures of the adventures...





And today we stopped by the Shaw's house and Mason rode Ty's bike with no training wheels!