It's been two weeks since Isobel had her surgery. She's been home for 9 days and she's doing amazingly well. Even the day she arrived home she had us all watching in disbelief as she made her first attempts to crawl around the kitchen floor. Now she's moving so fast you'd never believe there was anything wrong. She's still got a pretty fresh scar and if you think that her ribcage was cut open and is now loosely held together with a few bits of stainless steal wire it's hard to believe she's crawling and rolling all over the place!
Here are a few more pictures from her stay in hospital and from the days since she's been home.
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Our first cuddles two days after her surgery just before she was moved up to the ward. It was SO good to be able to just pick her up.
Being moved from the PICU up to the ward. She looked so tiny in that big bed.
Trying to get some rest. It was so hard for the poor little munchkin to get any sleep, she'd be woken up continuously for blood pressure checks or to be given her medication. By the end of her stay in the hospital I think she was totally exhausted.
This was the morning before we left the hospital, 4 days after open heart surgery. She's smiling and happy but doesn't look quite right. Apart from being exhausted she decided to stop drinking the hospital milk and was starting to get a little dehydrated. Once she got home she started drinking again and finally got a good nights sleep. In this picture she's surrounded by all the teddies she received while in hospital. When we got home there were even more presents! Fruit baskets and flowers and cards and some really cute books for Bel. Thank you so much to all our family, friends and neighbours for being so sweet and thoughtful, it means a lot to us.
With Nana waiting to go home and finally out of the yucky hospital PJ's.
Such a sweetie pie!
These are Bel's scars one week after surgery. There's the main incision and the smaller scar below is where her chest tube went in. It's not too clear in this picture but she was also covered in tiny spec scar's where all the other lines and wires went in. She has these on her neck, wrists, ankles and stomach. You can just about see a few of these either side of the chest tube scar.
Two weeks after surgery and it's all healing nicely, she had the last stitch out yesterday and doesn't look so much like a pin cushion anymore.
Crawling around again and I'm sure, so happy to be home!
Out for a walk in the park with Seb and Nana. Bel gets the comfy ride on the baby sled.
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