After Surgery Day 4 (Morning 2/9)

Morning

Sheila had a hard night. The pain pill she was given made her nauseous. They gave her several things for this, which delayed the end result to be while the surgeon was visiting in the morning. He had the opportunity to catch it in the barf bucket. TMI! (Too Much Information). This was good however because he ordered her different medications and she is sleeping well now. The colon has started working so she is being upgraded to a full liquid diet. I think that we will see some real good progress throughout the rest of today.

 Rest of the Day:

Well, so much for my optimism this morning!  The nausea continued and then the colon got active, and then hyper active.  The IV leaked out of the vein and her hand swelled up like a softball.  She told them it was hurting, but they said that was because it was a different kind of fluid going in.  She is sleeping well now (10:30 pm).  We will hope for that real good progress tomorrow.  We did not get the pathology report like we thought we would today and will hope for good news there tomorrow as well.

Many people have helped with our children over the last few days.  The fridge is full as are the tummies!  The children have been so well taken care of that it may seem harder for them with their mother at home!!  I don’t think they missed too many scout or YW meetings, ball games, or even ball practice!  Rick has acquired a steady part time job this week doing janitorial work for some of the local schools and has not been able to provide as much help with rides as we were initially planning. If this blog were not published too far and too wide I would mention that his Mother is sure proud of him.  I am told that all of the children have performed as well as could be expected without their mother or father being around much.  I am sure that this was, at least in part, because of the help they received from friends.  Again Thanks to all for your help.