Okay, Good News

Yeah! Good news. She is doing fine and sleeping well. She had a periocardial effusion. There is a tube in there now. They got 70 cc.'s of fluid in the cath lab, and more was draining later. She went doing well on the vent, but tonight she is letting the vent do some work, due to her heavy sedation from the catheterization.
Today is my father-in-law's birthday. He came up to see her during the middle of all of this. The good news was that she opened her eyes while everyone was there, through all that sedation and not out of agitation.
She is not wanting to empty her bladder. Poor thing. She cries when she goes in her diaper. Today, she held everything for 12 hours. I showed up and told her to go pee and she did within minutes. It fact, she did it two times. She is definitely aware of voices, even through all that sedation. She feels shameful if she goes in a diaper. She is a very self-sufficient child.
Today, the nurse told her to cough when she had to do the suction, but this time her nurse today, who happens to be Chinese-American, told her to do it in Mandarin. Jiliang did everything she was supposed to do, without any problems today. The pneumonia is getting better as well.
So for the record, here is Jiliang's complications or battle scars in addition to a major open heart surgery:
*Fall out of bed, resulting in CT, X-Rays, and pulling her main arterial line and breathing tube out, resulting in a neck scar on the right side of her neck, and a new line put in on the left side
*Multiple transfusions
*2 Pleural Effusions (resulting in chest tubes)
*1 Collapsed Lung
*Pneumonia
*Ripped out her IV in her left hand - Now it's stitched in
*Pericardial Effusion, resulting in an echo, x-ray and surgical cath procedure
I am sure that I am missing something in there somewhere. My kid is tough!

I want to thank you all for your continued prayers. I pray that she has a peaceful night. I think that if one more thing like this happens, I am going to go bonkers.
For now, all is well. I will report on tomorrow, and hope for more good news.
Jill