Day 3

Today was apparently a really nice day outside. I wouldn't know since
I'm stuck inside at the Foothills. My day went pretty well despite a
mostly sleepless night (par for the course here at the hospital). I
was up at about 7am when Penny got here. We met with the resident on
call shortly after that. There wasn't much to discuss with him so we
immediately got on with our day of sitting, lying and drinking small
amounts of clear fluid. Later in the day I progressed to walking and
snacking on pb and crackers. In a fit of madness (actually it seemed
like the best thing at the time), I asked the nurses to take me off
the epidural and put me on patient controlled iv pain meds. That
lasted all of 4 hours before I kindly asked them to turn that
beautiful pain-reducing piece of epidural magicness back on. Since
then things have been good. I had supper (on the menu it was called
chicken noodle soup but it was devoid of noodles and tasted like very
salty oatmeal), went for a few walks on the unit and even cleaned
myself up in the bathroom. As usual it's been great to have Penny here
to help me out. I realized how much she must like me today when we
found ourselves both very excited and highly entertained at the fact
that I was passing gas (a good sign my bowels are back working). Yer a
good wife Pen.