PICC line accidentally yanked

Sometime during the night Riley accidentally pulled out his PICC line. This is the line in Riley's neck that nurses have been using to draw blood as well as to push IV fluids through. Fortunately, there wasn't a lot of bleeding. This morning, his nurse clipped the stitches and removed it completely. They will not put in a new one, but they will need to poke him for blood draws on Friday (he ususally gets blood drawn daily, but since they have to stick him, they will wait an extra day).

His chest tubes continue to drain and clots continue to be an issue. There was very little drainage from his right side overnight. Once a clot was dislodged, drainage resumed. We are still trending downward, but his output continues to be more than they would like to see. The question is whether the decreased drainage is a result of healing in the chest cavity or if it is a result of the extra diuretics that were added to his medicine regime in an effort to help dry him up. In another day or two, they will decrease his diuretics to a lower level (the dose that he'll get at home), and see if the drainage picks up or continues to trend downward.

We are likely moving to another room this afternoon. We have been in a shared room in the step-down unit for three weeks. And we have had new roommates on a regular basis--some are quit noisy. We are hopefully moving to a private room across the hall. This is a bit of a craps shoot. The private room is usually reserved for patients that need to be isolated, so if a special case comes in, we could get bumped to the main bay next to the nurses station. We've decided to take that risk in an effort to have a little peace and quiet.