We're outta here!

We had to wait around a bit to get blood drawn again (poor sweet girl had lots more tears) but we finally got released and are waiting for meds at CVS on our way home. It's been a long week and with the lack of sleep and just all the emotions, it's kind of a blur. We spent the night in 4 different rooms and had so many different doctors and nurses that I was always confused about who we had met already. Allie ended up in my bed last night because she woke crying and scared and couldn't calm down. Hoping her bed is comforting tonight!  Our big things now are to make sure we don't lift her under the arms and that she doesn't fall, make sure her incision doesn't get infected, keep her moving so the extra fluid leaves her body, and keep her from getting a virus.  Any of that going wrong could land us back at Duke. We have follow ups with surgery and cardiology next week and hope for great reports so we can move on. Thank you all so much for your support. It has been hard, particularly the first days of not knowing what would happen and having to let her go back to surgery, but overall it has been as good an experience as we could ask for and we are thankful!