Baby Arianna is home for good!! It's about time after spending half of her life in the hospital! We brought her home yesterday afternoon, not even 6 days after her open heart surgery! She is a champ!! Wednesday, one of the doctors told me that she may very well be the healthiest baby in the whole hospital, but they were required to monitor her for 24 hours after taking out the chest drainage tube. We are so happy! They took the bandage off of the scar down her chest so that is a little scary, but other than that, you would never know that she has been through anything. She even smiled at me for the first time today! She's happy to be home!
Today we were supposed to take the gauze/tape covering where they took out the drainage tube...I am a tad too squeamish so I made Jesus do it. It looks scary. But nothing came out (blood) so I guess it's ok! We go back for our follow up appointment with the cardiologist on Friday 5/31. Then we are cleared to go back to our normal lives...which means we can finally relocate back to San Diego!
We have been so unbelievably blessed. Being in the ICU with all the sick babies who will probably need multiple surgeries and God forbid may not even make it. It also gave us utmost confidence in our surgeon Dr. Hanley. In speaking with other parents, they had tried to find help for their babies all over the country and pretty much every other hospital said they couldn't help them. Dr. Hanley said he could and did!
A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!!
We look forward to a lifetime of healthy heart with this little cookie! I will post a picture of our happy girl post surgery when I get a chance.
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