Post-Surgery Day 6 - Drain removal

Today has been an eventful day. His diet was upped to now include simple startches, ie: crackers, toast, english muffin, etc. They also removed his iv and his drain. If he starts to have too much output into his bag, they'll have to put an iv back in to help keep him from getting dehydrated. Following is a picture of the drain before they pulled it out.



Update: Shortly after they took out his iv he started getting really nauseated and a lot of pain. We had the nurse put the iv back in and she was able to give him something for the nausea. He also took 2 Loritab and fell asleep. Around 4:00 I got him up to try to walk a little bit. He made it out into the hall where we met the Dr.'s. He got dizzy so we came back into the room. He then started throwing up...a lot. So...they took away his liquids and put him back on iv fluids. It has been 7 hours since he took the Loritab, and he still has no pain. As a side note...he hasn't had to use the bathroom since around 9:00 this morning. I'm not quite sure his stomach was ready for food/liquids. The Dr. said if he keeps throwing up they'll have to put a tube down his nose to drain his stomach. Maybe we were trying to improve things too quickly. They were talking today of possibly letting him go home tomorrow. He is definitely not ready to go home yet. The Dr. said he has to be up and walking around by himself before he can go home! Lets hope for more improvement tomorrow!