Back in the saddle again...

Today's report brought to you from 6th Floor Children's Hospital, Colorado....
Mercy was scheduled yesterday to have her Broviac procedure with Dr. Somme. As usual in surgery, she was a champ and did really well. We also got to see Superhero Alan and a few other favorite people here at the hospital. It's kinda weird to be back, it's been 9 weeks this time, but is also quite comfortable since Mercy tends to be quite a "celebrity".  Nice to see all of her friends again from surgery and the 6th floor :)
The plan is to keep her here this week to monitor her new feeding through IV and get her to "goal'. She has a small incision on her upper left chest with a single catheter that goes through her vein to her heart to administer nutrition through her blood.  Her first night being hooked up went great.  Hopefully this will help her gain weight and give her that extra 'ooumph' she needs to grow and develop physically. She no longer has her feeding tube for nutrition which was (I will admit) nice for medication administration (not so fun to put in as you know from past posts). Back to tasting the yucky stuff, sorry nugget.... :(
After discharge, Home Health will assist us with weekly dressing changes, blood draws and overall maintenance of the line.  Not too scary after dealing with the PICC line from before. I keep thinking.."wouldn't it be great if we got "the call" while here already?" Wait, that would be too convenient...lol.