In the OR

Nahum entered the OR at 7:15 this morning and I walked Shayna down to her's at 8am.  I'm eating breakfast after a night with 3hrs of interupted sleep and lots of baby holding.  The night was nothing like what I had expected but wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.

Nahum, Hilary, Michael, and Melinda left me around 6:30pm so Shayna could get a nap.  We rested for an hour, then ate, played, and watched tv until the Thymoglobulin started around 9:30 (the first anti-rejection defense).  The thymo requires full monitoring so she had 3 additional cables to the iv administering the thymo.  It was hard for her to get comfortable so she spent over half the night resting in my arms.  One of the side effects is fever and Shayna's got up to 102F (38.9C), which I think actually made the morning easier.  Instead of screaming and writhing for food she slept fitfully in my arms.

I'm supposed to get 3 calls through out the day.  Right now they're doing all the prep work.  With the iv from yesterday they put her to sleep, then they have to put in the central line and another arm line (taking out the original iv afterwards), she gets a breathing tube, etc (I don't remember everything they told me but it's a lot).  They'll call when they actually begin the operation on her, when they get the liver sown in, and when she ready to come out.

I'm going to go up to my room and sleep now.  Hopefully I can get my parents to post something next.