IVIG Round 5

Owen is back for his 5th round of IVIG.  We checked into the CVICU at 4pm and Owen was chatting up a storm.  He talked to his nurse non stop for the first hour and then wandered around his room, looked out the window and then finally settled into bed. The IV team stopped by at around 7 and we got his IV placed quickly.  We tried a new trick where we closed our eyes and counted backwards from 10 to 1 to take our mind off the poke.  It worked from 10.. 9.. 8.. and then the tears fell.  It didn't help that the IV wouldn't draw, so we had to poke his other hand to draw labs.  Our countdown didn't work the second time around.. just tears and cuddles. 

Our nurse was really busy with another patient and we hadn't eaten since lunch, so I unplugged his monitors and leads and we headed down to the cafeteria for dinner.  It was a nice break to get out of this room and it didn't appear that anyone missed us too much.  We came back to our room, just in time to meet our night nurse.  It's a guy that is pretty familiar with Superheros, so he is a big hit!

The Volunteers came by with Howard the dog to play with Owen.  Owen isn't much of an animal guy, but he likes these calm doggies that come around.  Howard cuddles Owen and fell asleep on his lap.  His owner woke him up in time to show Owen some cool tricks and Owen gave him some treats.  Owen was so excited to get a card with Howards information.  He collects the doggy cards and loves to look at them.

Owen takes forever to eat his dinner, but ate pretty good.  A few carrots, a celery stick, a couple bites of crunchy lettuce, a bite of chicken, a drink of milk and a chip.  We watched Lilo and Stitch and now he is sound asleep for the night {hopefully}.

We are still waiting for the pharmacy to bring up his IVIG and it's 9:30pm. His nurse has called a million times and so hopefully they will get it up here soon. I'm pretty sure it doesn't take 6 hours to mix up some immunoglobulin. Yikes. Here's to a decent nights sleep in a comfy recliner listening to the beeps of Owen's alarms. Prayers go out to our other heart families that are living in hospital rooms from Seattle, to SLC, to Boston. Hugs to you all.. you know who you are!!