Recovering nicely

It's been almost 48 hours since Morgan's PDA ligation surgery and she is already showing signs of improvement. As expected, she initally had some trouble with her blood pressure and kidney function, but she responded to the medicine they gave her pretty quickly. As of today she is still on a very low dose of dopamine to maintain her urine output, and a couple other medications to keep her comfortable on the oscillator, but that is all.

They had told us they needed to compress one of her lungs during the surgery to access the ductus and today they said the same lung was partially collapsed. However they said it was not uncommon following PDA surgery and since she is already on the oscillator, it wouldn't require anything other than laying her on her left side a little longer than they otherwise would. She would need another x-ray to confirm, but this afternoon the nurses said they could tell that it was already improving. Despite the collapsed lung, they have also been able to wean her down on the oscillator a couple of times to the point that she is on less support than prior to surgery. Right now we're very happy that she seemed to handle the surgery about as well as we could expect, and that she is showing some improvement thanks to the closed PDA.