Brady's morning started abruptly at 4:30 when the travelling X-Ray came to the ICU. Brady is sound asleep when the guy, who's probably been awake all night, comes into the room and awakes Brady. He is to be put into sitting position so a large, hard X-Ray board can be put behind him and he is to lay on it. Brady is in a lot of pain when he has to move. I stand at the door watching his face seeing that he is hurting and I can't do anything to help. His nurse quickly gets him a dose of morphine to help with the pain. This is followed by the removal of his arterial line. The tape is removed and she warns Brady that she is sliding it out. We quickly see Brady in excruciating pain. She discovers that there is a small suture holding it in place. I have to go get another nurse to help cut the suture while Brady's nurse tries to stop the artery from bleeding out. The best is when they tell you to go back to sleep because it's still early. Now that Brady's been officially tortured he's saying he's awake. So here I am blogging.
Things are really going well. We should be heading to the inpatient rooms this morning. He only has one IV line left and 2 chest tubes. His central line and another IV was removed yesterday. Several attempts were made yesterday to get Brady to sit up. The second attempt did not go well. When he was put into the seated position he became contorted and the pain was evident all over his face. Last night though after all three of his pain meds were freshly in his system he successfully made it from his bed to a chair with assistance. Brady's was determined to get himself back into bed only requiring help to lay back down. He's such a rock star.
We both got sleep last night. The nurse really did leave him alone. We were awaken at 2 for medicine, but that was it till 4:30. Hopefully we can get a nap today to help get us through another day.
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