Recovery- Day 8

Dr. Wells came out at 12:30. Everything went as expected. Only one scary, little surprise. 

Having his diaphragm fully expanded for so long caused his right lung to partially collapse. After plication, his lung returned to normal. 

We were able to go to Santi's new CTICU room around 1pm. I've been laying with him ever since.  

He has a 3 inch incision across his ribs. They removed his chest tube, but placed a new one lower on his belly. So many battle wounds for our little warrior.