{"id":1272,"date":"2014-08-18T08:24:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T08:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.happiness-speaker.co.uk\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2014-08-18T08:24:35","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T08:24:35","slug":"recovery-from-heart-surgery-day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/building.happiness-speaker.com\/?p=1272","title":{"rendered":"Recovery from heart surgery | Day 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

A really good day – lots of smiles, laughter and general joviality<\/h3>\n

You could almost forget we’re here because Hannah has just had major heart surgery (less than a week ago!)<\/h4>\n

9am<\/strong><\/em><\/span>
\nCame in at 8 to find Hannah up & dressed and having breakfast. She’d managed her half shower etc by herself!<\/p>\n

She’s had a good night and is almost back to her usual self. Still hurts to breathe but has managed to reach yesterday’s highest volume again in her breathing exercises (just under 2 litres).<\/p>\n

X-ray today again to see how the pneumothorax is doing.<\/p>\n

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Now she’s back to making loom-bands,\u00a0 so she must be better! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

First comedy moment of the day:<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\nMaggie, Hannah’s overnight nurse, nodding her head towards Simon and saying “I don’t know how she slept with his snoring!”<\/p>\n

11.30am<\/span><\/em><\/strong>
\nRyan, the self-professed “physio-terrorist” has been.\u00a0 He’s very happy with Hannah! He’s had her walking up and down the stairs and doing some harder (long&slow) breathing exercises. No need for her to see physios again unless anything deteriorates. Carry on with hourly breathing exercises and long walk including up and down stairs, 3-4 times per day.<\/p>\n

Ward rounds have taken place. Consultant (Dr Paul Miller, an excellent Consultant…he was an excellent Registrar on Dr Wright’s team when Hannah first started being seen here.\u00a0 It was great to see him again) is very happy with her progress and how well she’s looking despite the pneumothorax.<\/p>\n

He said it’s not a tiny one they’d just leave alone and not a massive one they’d automatically drain. They’ll take another x-ray today and have a look. If it’s shrinking they’ll just give it time. If it doesn’t look like it’s reducing, they may have to drain it. Of course if it’s bigger they’ll have to drain it.<\/p>\n

We’ve also established, thank goodness, that as we don’t live around the corner, they’ll be in no rush to kick her out until they’re sure she’s absolutely fine.<\/p>\n

He also said the heart and new conduit sound great.<\/p>\n

Emotional moment of the day<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h4>\n

I told Kate, Hannah’s nurse, about the letter Hannah had written to Mr Brawn before coming in so she could let him know Hannah’s well enough to chat to him. Kate said she’d seen the letter and had got a bit emotional…which of course got me welling up…and Hannah rolling her eyes at me!<\/p>\n

Round-up at the end of the day, before I go to bed: <\/em><\/strong>
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