Day 3: Meds (Heart Month)

Job is now down to a mere 8 meds given and 5 med times (though we're about to add another). I hardly think about it as I draw them up and several times a week Isaac gives them... A sharp contrast to when we first came home from the hospital and it took BOTH Seth and I a good hour to draw them all up and give them (and I think we came home on 16 meds and had 7 med times).

He'll be on most of his cardiac meds his whole life to keep his fluid balance level and to help his heart pump and to help prevent clotting. We're hopeful he'll get off his digestive meds some day, but his digestive system currently doesn't get enough oxygen to function properly without these meds.



It takes quite a bit of work to coordinate between his doctors and pharmacies to make sure he gets his refills on time and prior authorizations and dose changes, but it's doable now that I know the system better and have enough of the vocab down and a detailed calendar.

Job has been taking all his meds by mouth (besides his old anti coagulation med that we used to inject 2x/day) since he moved down, out of the CICU, at 10 weeks. Perhaps because he doesn't know any different, he's always taken them so well! I'm incredibly grateful for that blessing and I hope he'll always do so!

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