Recovery- Day 17

The chest tube is out!!!

This dude was seriously thrilled to get rid of that tube!

It was removed around 12:30pm today. I can't tell you how happy this makes all of us! No more chest tube also means means no more oxygen! Yay! The most exciting part about removing the oxygen is seeing his 95-100% sats!

So what's next? 

We will stay in the hospital and continue to have daily X-Rays and blood work. The cardiology team will follow him very closely, tweak his medications as needed and they'll send us home when they see stable and consistent numbers.

Anyone who has ever had an extended hospital stay knows it's bad juju to speculate on a discharge date. I'm not even going to throw any dates out there. We are happy to stay here as long as Santi needs to and we will go home when Santi is ready. 

We did a lot more walking today. It felt great to get out of the room without wheeling around the chest tube pump and oxygen tank! Freedom!