Day 1: Post - Op AM Update

I came downstairs after 4.5 hours of sleep to see my love sitting up in a chair!!! He is having some pain today from the 2 chest tubes that they have running along side his incision area. They run up inside his chest along the incision a few inches and drain out the access fluid into a measuring container. This way they can monitor if there are any issues by the way the fluid looks. Currently its in just the plain old blood phase. We are hoping for more of a red kool aid look today...progress! 

He started out with some dry cheerios (which was the first thing he has eaten since midnight on Thursday). He wanted to stand up since his butt is falling asleep in the chair/bed. :) That went well and the nurse and I helped him up so he was able to move his legs a bit. 

They brought him a nice cardiac breakfast this morning and he had some of an egg omelet, piece of banana bread, decaf coffee (he thought it tasted so good and for a hospital), milk and more cheerios. They didn't want him to eat too much or too little..kinda hard to gauge that but all he has had recently is meds so this is the first thing to hit his stomach. 

After all of this the cattle has started to move into the pasture ....he went for a walk down the hallway. I did get two quick shots that he may get back at me for but I said it was for the blog ;)

Sam and his brother Jimmy walking

We had to add an extra cape to him so that his little booty was being shown off :)

stay tuned for an afternoon update.