I have thought throughout the time here that my days are like the movie Groundhog Day, I wake up every morning and it is the same day. I know it is a different day but I have the same routine every morning. I wake up obviously, head to the hospital, spend all day long in Archie's room, leave for dinner, come back and hangout until 10 pm when I head home, go home to go to bed and start the day over again. I would obviously be talking about the days that we have been hanging out in the room not the days that there has been a lot going on...
Today was another boring day with Archie. He went on an extended walk today with his physical therapist through the North ICU and the West ICU. He sat in the chair for a little while. Archie is off of most IV pumped drugs now, we only use those if his blood pressure is a little low but now that his blood pressures parameters are a lot lower he has been able to handle it without IV meds for the most part. Archie also got his stitches out tonight, don't ask me how many there were because they did not count them but the incision was from his forehead to his ear so there were a bunch but they used just one long suture.
The doctor has said that due to the amount of fluid in his brain they will probably put a permanent shunt in his head. The shunt will be internal in his head and will drain the fluid in his brain into this abdomen so the fluid gets flushed out. Apparently a lot of children have the same issues and have shunts put in, that is why the doctor measures the kiddo's head throughout the years. The doctor said he would probably put the shunt in next week sometime. He still has a vasospasm going on but it is pretty light so there is not a rush for Archie to get another CT scan.
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