Day 4

My day today was spent sleeping. The cardiac team completed two surgeries, one was a aortic valve repair who is already extubated and on RA. She is doing well, The other is a VSD closure, and a PAPVR repair, is also extubated and doing well on RA. Two of our cardiac patients had their chest tubes pulled and then went to the Pediatric Ward. The other still had chest tubes in so James is still in the ICU mixed with the other adult patients.
(Picture left, this was our oldest patient 17years, she too did very well) I think this was Chip 3
Below was Lucy she was cute as ever, she was so afraid of Rebekah it wasn't uncommon when you approached her bedside she would put her arm over her nose. She was just cute.

Here is the team.

My day today was spent sleeping. The cardiac team completed two surgeries, one was a aortic valve repair who is already extubated and on RA. She is doing well, The other is a VSD closure, and a PAPVR repair, is also extubated and doing well on RA. Two of our cardiac patients had their chest tubes pulled and then went to the Pediatric Ward. The other still had chest tubes in so James is still in the ICU mixed with the other adult patients.

I am sure it is a little intimidating being next to them, the patient to the right of him is a burn patient looks like isn't doing well, and the patient to the left of him is also really sick.

(The guy with the guitar is Jeff, the husband of Dr. Erin Cardiologist. He became our resident, child life specialist, tour guide, echo tech, ekg tech, doctor, equipement tech, social worker, and music therapist. We loved having him, it was a huge blessing to have him).

While i am talking about the adults and kind of a cultural thing, suicide is quite common here, the patient that is in the bed directly in front of him in the adult ICU ingested poison.

After I woke up from a good sleep, I walked down to find some of the team members who were apparently playing soccer with 450 boarding school kids, with there 14 teachers. I got lost trying to find it, and ended up down the road a few blocks, where I ran into 6 little kids carrying a bushel of sticks on their head, they ask me for a "sweet." It was a lot of fun, they also wanted me to take many pictures of them.

Well now it is me Dr. Barr, and Rebekah holding down the fort in the cardiac ICU we have 6 patients and again they are all doing well, we have frequently discussed how fast tracked a lot of patients are here, just a few hours after surgery we have them ready to go to the floor. Well that might be a little wrong but the point is they do well. I guess we are a little lucky and blessed, mainly due to the prayers that all of you offer on a daily bases for us and especially the surgeons.
Well tomorrow will be a new day. This truly had been a great experience, we have met some great people and seen some incredible things. I feel lucky to be here.

This has truly been a eye opener and a very different experience.

Thank you all for all you do thanks you for your love and concern and mostly your prayers.