Post Op Day 2 (updated 11pm)

Last night went well. Haley is still on the breathing machine, but she was breathing mostly on her own all night. Woot! She is still on nitric and oxygen. Her cardiologist came by today. That was good to talk with him.
We are not having visitors until she has most of the tubes out of her face, and is awake. Hopefully later today. She wakes up sometimes and mouths that she is thirsty. I told her I will give her water as soon as her tummy wakes up. If its still sleeping the water will just sit in there. So she negociates....just a sip, ....with a straw....with a spoon.... ice. Shes funny.

They are going to take her off the machine in a few minutes. We are praying for no nose bleeds while they take it out. Of course everyone was unaware she had posterier nose bleeds, so that was fun explaining it to them.
So after she is off the machine, we will be able to wake her up more and see what happens.
OH and Last night a girl here got a new heart!! God bless organ donors.

UPDATE: The breathing tube came out great. They replaced it with a c-pap machine blowing oxygen and nitric, but she is breathing on her own. She looks great. Her stats are good. There is some pain when she wakes up in her chest and in her throat but they are still keeping her sedated just not as much as before. She is resting now. The plan is to slowly let her wake up today and manage any pain.

 UPDATE 11PM: Haley was awake for about 2 hours today, she was talking and sipping some water. Her first try on juice made her tummy hurt. We tried again tonight and it was pretty successful, she also took all her regular meds by mouth and ate some jello! Her NG tube is out.
They have been slowly weaning her from the nitric oxide. I believe she started on 12, she is down to 3 and will go down 1 more each hour until 0. As long as her stats stay up.
We will see how it goes.