Loving the energy!

Lucas is doing great. Honestly, besides being a little pale you wouldn't know he just had heart surgery. He is happy and has a lot of energy. He is a little pale because his blood count is low. They were fine with his levels, they weren't low enough to transfuse. The reason he has a low blood count is because his chest tubes drained for so long. So, he was loosing small amounts of blood through those for several days, well it adds up when you are only 3. The team said as he starts eating more and getting back into a sense of normal being, they will come back up. He already looks less pale than he did. The slight problem is he cant' have green leafy vegetables because they interact with the coumadin, and he can't eat red meat because there is too much fat in it. So, he is taking his vitamin and hopefully he is getting enough iron.

Every day when he wakes up he says "we're not going to see the white nurse today mommy?" He calls the phlebotomists "white nurses" because they wear white lab coats. He does NOT like the "white nurses"..ha! We do have to go see them this week to get his INR level drawn, but he doesn't know this yet.

We have follow up cardiology on Friday. He is being such a little trooper about the no fat. He doesn't even question it. He did put on a few pounds when in the hospital, but we're pretty sure he has since lost that again, because he getting to be more and more active and he is barely getting any fat. We are thankful our kids are such good fruit and veggie eaters to begin with, it really helps that I don't have to put up a fight every time he needs to eat.

Yes, he needs a haircut beyond bad....but that will have to wait just a few more weeks until he can be out in public again. His hair is wild, but I think Claire's is more wild..ha :)