It's been a good day

Posted Nov 14, 2008 6:20pm

Today has been a good day. - She has had her moments, but all in all she is continuing to improve steadily. She has gotten out of bed several times today, and sat in the chair several times - took some walks to the potty. She had an issue with clearing her bladder since they took the cath out but, just as the were ordered to call the urologists, we finally came up with something that helped her out. - Thank God. - She did have some bouts of nausea and did throw-up but all better now.

She is completely off of all IV's now, no more morphine, really just on an antibiotic, and two pain killers. - So she is doing good. They removed her chest tube today and the IV pick that was in her neck also. So at this point, her only attachments are the heart monitor, the respiratory rate monitor, and the blood pressure cuff. She still has two IV ports in one hand - but these will remain until she leaves the hospital.

Her color is back, we got some smiles today, and more conversation. She ate for the first time also. It took her from 9:00 in the morning until about 5:00 this evening to eat a small bowl of dry cheerios. And then tonight, she ate just under a half of a turkey sandwich. Little by little. Today made us all feel better. Thanks again for all of your prayers - there is no doubt that these are answers to prayers.

We are waiting her move to a regular room (on the 6th floor) - I was awaiting sending this until we got the room number, but it seems to keep getting delayed. - So as of now...and this could change... we are scheduled to move sometime tonight. As soon as I get the room number, I will post it in the 'quick update' section at the top of the page.

Thanks again for all the thoughts and comments and prayers. We really do appreciate it.

Love, Mark, Mary, and Marki