Going Home Day In Sight!

Steve is really progressing nicely, and today several things happened that bring him closer to being discharged from the hospital!  He was taken off the morphine drip and put on Vicodin, which seems to be working, if not perfectly, at least more than adequately.  They started him on solid food and that seems to be going well.  Also, they took out one of the two chest tubes that need to come out before he goes home, and they plan to take the second one out tomorrow.

Once these things are all done they want to give him a day or so to be sure all his systems continue to work properly and that there aren't any surprises.  So….the doctor mentioned the end of the week as a realistic possibility for him going home.  He feels really good, given everything, and is anxious to be home where he can actually sleep more than an hour before someone comes in to do something he needs to wake up for!

Apparently everything that they took out during the surgery was sent to pathology (who knew?) and they will be getting the results back from the lab very shortly so we’re anxious to hear about those.

with love,

~ Keren