ICU

Little Fisher Bleu is now resting in ICU at CHOC. There is a bed in the room with him and just down the hall is a Ronald McDonald wing that I will sleep in tonight. Tomorrow Bleu goes to do a huge corporate job in LA with his son Nate. I will be hanging with the fisherman. It is so hard for him to go, but through the magic of cell phones and texting, it will be like he is right here.

Many people have asked about visiting...I would say let's hold off until he is moved to the regular floor. Tomorrow his swelling will start, and my little Fisherstein will not be too good to view. He needs to rest and have quiet time, too. Wow, I look at hims and can't believe what he has gone through!

We spent about an hour in recovery until 3PM, and his forehead looks great! Kudos to our team who worked on him. He has a flat forehead! It is round and not peaking out. He also has a tube under the skin across the forehead for draining fluid and blood..He has a huge sewn up line across the top of his head, where the incision was made. They warned us that we both could go in to see him, but only one of us could stay in the recovery with Fisher, as a rule. We were so fortunate that they never tossed one of us out....I think they do that so it does not get loud and crowded, as the recovery is a big open room with many patients right out of surgery.

Of course he has many tubes attached to him. They use legs and not arms for babies for the IVs, and he has one on each leg. A catheter is attached to him, an E.T. red light on a pulser reader on his big left toe, and the 2 drain tubes on the top and front of his head that lead down to the right ear, where they come out of his head and lead to 2 bulbs which gather the blood and liquid that accumulate. He can still see, and is not swollen, but will be swelling up over the next 2 days, the doctors say.

We are now grabbing a bite at Original Mikes...an perfect place down the road...we left him in the hands of the wonderful nurses there for a little while. We will head back shortly.

Thank you everyone for tuning in today! I will update tomorrow, and keep praying for his recovery...he has a lot to do in the next week! Our love,

Bleu and Ali
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