Closing Time

Clare's chest is closed! It happened sooner than expected, and she did awesome! No major bleeding, no major blips in her stats. Her clotting is still somewhat iffy, so she is receiving Vitamin K injections to aid with that. (Please don't ask me what all this does - I try to soak up as much information as I can from the doctors and nurses, and then forget half of it! I've started writing stuff down, so I can at least repeat it somewhat intelligently to Shawn.) The nurse gave her a little sponge bath, and took the suction tube out of her mouth and inserted it through her nose instead (her ventilator tube goes through one nostril, and the tube to suction acid out of her stomach was inserted into her mouth, but now both tubes are in her nose). She has nothing in her mouth now, so Clare looks much more peaceful and absolutely beautiful!