First day of recovery

I wasn't very detailed yesterday so I am going to recap a little so I can better explain the progress today. While in surgery Austin had gone into v-tach several times. Thankfully he didn't require being shocked but was very close. Dr Fortuna was able to regain normal rhythm by several large doses of a drug called amirdron (something like that anyways). When we were able to see him in his room they had the defibrillator right next to his bed...not something any of us wanted to see. He was on a constant amridron drip and the doctors wanted the paddles in there "just in case". Thankfully he has had a normal heart rhythm for the last 24hrs, so they were able to remove the paddles and take him off the drip today. He hasn't had fentynol(pain narcotic) for the last four hours today which is wonderful. Our goal for tomorrow is to get the arterial line out of his groin area so we can try and at least have him sit up. I don't want to candy coat it, he is in a tremendous amount of pain but all in all we are very pleased with the results as are his doctors. We hope to start weaning him from his oxygen once he is able to move around a little more. Maybe in the next couple of days we will be able to get the chest tube out and look towards an "out date". Remarkably we are still optimistic...hopefully that will hold. Keep the prayers coming! Thanks again. Mary