Staying in the Hospital

This morning Dr. St. Louis said that he is comfortable with us going home whenever we want, even though Lynnea's sat's continue to dip pretty low. He believes that her sat's are simply going to be lower because she is beginning to outgrow the B-T shunt that was placed between her aorta and her pulmonary artery. The only solution for this would be to go ahead and do the Glenn procedure, but he's not willing to do that right now because he's afraid that she's still getting over the tail end of the cold bug that she came with this hospital stay. I told him that, even though I trust his judgement, I'm not really comfortable going home with her dropping her sat's like this, at least, not without some sort of very clear guidelines in place for when we should be really worried about her, and when it's OK for her to have such low sat's. He felt that this was reasonable, and he and the other cardiologists are working on getting a plan together. We'll hang out here for a few more days while they get things lined up for us (we'll probably be going home with oxygen. . . just as a precaution, Dr. St. Louis is adamant about not wanting her on oxygen all the time).