Surgery Day

 These days are always the toughest. As much as we are prepared for them, and know it's for the best, and know he is/will be in the best, most capable hands, there is still a lot of stress

Thankfully, Dom and I both got good sleeps last night (Not so much for Roland, he tends to be a big ball of stress at times like these). Dom was bright eyed and bushy tailed before my alarm went off, which frankly, wasn't ideal. It's better when he sleeps right up until it's time to get ready, then he's distracted by getting ready and we're out the door before he realizes he's hungry. But what did he ask for as soon as he realized I was awake this morning? Breakfast. 🙄😅 So we distracted him with some water (allowed until we left for the hospital) until we were ready to go.

Dom was a total rockstar. Thankfully, we only needed to be to the admission unit 50 minutes before his surgery. So the wait wasn't too long and Dom was cool with it. Once we were on our way to the OR, he rode on the stretcher without issue and just made sure he knew where Roland and I were at all times. I got to walk him directly into the OR and he was so calm the whole time. This little man amazes me. 

About 4 hours after we sent him to the OR, we were notified he was out of surgery and his surgeon came and talked to us and told us that everything went as expected, there were no complications and everything looked great! SUCH a relief to hear those glorious words.

About an hour after that we were able to go see him in his room in the ICU, he was still asleep but he looked great. In true Dom fashion, as soon as he did wake up, he immediately tried to sit up in bed. However, the medical prefer to take things a bit slow after Open Heart Surgery (go figure), so he needed to be a bit sedated until his breathing tube could be removed but Dom kept sitting up as soon as he was even slightly awake, SO what could they do? Moved up the time to extubate him! And he rocked it. No going back. Also in true Dom fashion, was asking for drinks. Once again, staff were hesitant, but we gave it a try by just getting sponges wet and letting him suck the moisture off and he took about 60ml that way. Crushing it! I mean... he did have a little bit of a setback later when we did the same thing again and he threw up... but I have it on good authority that it happens to pretty much everyone on "anesthetic tummy". So I'm taking it in stride.

I've been told he's been slated to move off of ICU tomorrow assuming he has no setbacks and there is room on the cardiac recovery floor. So here's hoping!

All around good day... still stressful and exhausting, but it couldn't have gone better. :)