The last 72 hours have been busy for Peanut. As the DW mentioned in the last update, the NICU is very crowded right now and Peanut was listed as healthy enough to be moved out of the NICU and into a pediatric inpatient floor should the NICU run out of room. That moment came Wednesday afternoon and Peanut was transferred to her new room in 2JCP – for a while.

Surgery had scheduled Peanut’s procedure for the placement of her Broviac line (a central IV line) for Thursday morning. The Broviac will allow us to care for Peanut at home while she is still on TPN (IV nutrition). Not knowing how Peanut would respond to being intubated and sedated during the procedure, the surgeons wanted Peanut to spend her initial recovery time back in the NICU for one on one observation by a nurse. So after the successful placement of the Broviac, Peanut was back in the NICU she left less than 24 hours ago. Peanut bounced back quickly from the sedation, and was happily back on her full feeds just a couple hours later – all her feistiness comes in handy – and the DW and I were told that the NICU team wanted to keep Peanut in the NICU until she was ready to go home – maybe. But, not much later the NICU was running out of room (again) and Peanut was on the list of those healthy enough to move (again). So, late this afternoon Peanut was back on the road to her new room in 2JCP (again) where she will be until discharge.

All settled into her new room in the pediatric inpatient floor! Snug as a bug 🙂

The DW & I have already learned how to flush an IV line, and change her ostomy bag. More learning to come early next week when we will master how to run the IV pump, and how to change a sterile dressing on her broviac. Then (fingers, toes, legs and eyes crossed) discharge on Wednesday!