Out and Sleepy

Dan was out and in his room about 830pm. When he first woke up he had some pain. The beauty of the epidural is they just turn it up and all is well. He's very sleepy of course. Among some of his many tubes, his favorite NG tube is back. The is the lovely tube which runs up your nose and down into your stomach. It sucks everything out so you don't throw up. The means no food or drink until they take that out! Once things are travelling the right way they can remove this. So as the nurse tells me," He farts it's out."

His vitals (blood pressure, respiration, oxygen levels and temperature) are awesome!! This makes me incredibly happy. After Dan's last surgery his blood pressure was high, he ran a fever, was breathing like he was running up stairs and his heart rate was 110 bbm or higher. All this went on for the entire first week. The Dr's and nurses all thought it was his body reacting to the surgery. Upon reflection Dan and I thought it was the morphine and hydramorphine which he was getting at a steady flow through the epidural. This time around the epidural is delivering fentanyl and so far so good. Pain is good and I haven't been asked to rub ice on his forehead and eye lids....

Dan didn't get his regular room and bed and is in a room with 3 other patients. He did score the window which looks west. It is very quiet and dark right now. Hope to hear from the Dr's tomorrow morning about how it all went.

Thanks to everyone who sent emails, called and commented on the blog. I have read all of them to Dan tonight. Such great support. Thanks to everyone who was thinking about us today. We really appreciate it all!

Another thanks to my basketball team, who has once again funded my parking at the hospital through all this. Thanks Girls!!!

That's it for now
Penny