One More Day in Paridise

Today has been an interesting day so far. Arrived here at the hospital around 12:30pm and Liliana was bright eyed and bushy tailed. She is looking very good these days. They have completely turned off her milrinone (heart med) and they want to watch her at least 24 hours to make sure that all is well. The plan is she will graduate to the Step-Down unit tomorrow as long as she continues to do well all day and night. She will be put on a strict med regimen to ween her off the heavy duty drugs they had her on. That regimen will have to be followed even when she eventually goes home. I came here today thinking that she would be moved because of all the talk yesterday but we get to stay one more day. As one of the nurse's here put it, it is bittersweet. That is a good way to explain it because the wonderful nurses and doctors here at the PICU have become like family to us. I wish she could just graduate from here to home but you can't always get what you want. On the other hand going to the Step-Down is just one step closer to going home.