Surgery is over, Line is out, Kiera is sedated...

After 2 or 3 postponements for emergency surgeries for other patients this morning, Kiera finally had her surgery to remove her central line in her PICU room instead of O.R. around 2:00PM. She's sedated right now and doing okay although I wonder how long her jugular I.V. will stay in for her antibiotics. The surgeon confirmed that her veins are pretty much shot leaving her very few choices for I.V. locations. They are watching her closely to make sure she doesn't get septic. It sounds like they may keep her sedated for a few days, but I need to talk with the intensivist still. She'll also be going back on her pulmonary hypertension meds (viagra) which she has been off of since June, I think. I don't know yet how long she'll be in, but I would guess 5 to 12 days still, especially now that we no longer have the option of treating her with I.V. drugs at home. We also need to see if she starts doing better. She definitely was still spiking temps this morning and having weird respiratory problems, so we'll want to get her back to baseline before running her home. Good news is that yesterday's blood culture was negative, so I think that means the current antibiotic is working. She was certainly feeling well enough today to push us out of the way when we came between her and her TV.