Sunday morning

John here.  Things seems to be going well.  The doctors seem happy.  No alarms from the machine which is good.  Tests all seem to be making the doctors happy.  X-rays, ultrasounds and so on.  Weight is going down daily, finally.  They are used to Heart Failure patients that eat too much sodium and started treating us as one of those.  Finally they see that we came in in pretty good shape.  Easier now to get in and out of bed.  Was tough at first.  Pretty boring days now without doctors all the time.  That's it for now.  Updates will be fewer as not much happens or changes anymore.

John

John is off oxygen now.  We were told this morning that it is hard to get a true oxygen saturation percentage from a patient with an LVAD since there is little or no pulse.  So he probably didn't need the oxygen last night, but it didn't hurt.  He was up a lot last night since the diuretics were given so late.  We'll be doing another shower today with drive line care.  Dr Mokadam was pleased with the 14 laps from yesterday and suggested 18 today which is one mile.  We'll see.  I think we will be walking a lot today.  We are hoping he can get a couple of good naps in also.

Colleen