Recovery, Day 2

Sissy here.

I was able to hang at the Dub for most of the day. If you've ever been in the hospital you will understand we spent a fair amount of time making crude jokes about body functions and laughing our heads off (be glad we don't imbed any videos). Sara cannot laugh because -ouch!- but she smiled and was distracted. It really takes an incision and 4 tubes hooked to Debbie Downer to keep that girl in one place.

Dr. Park came in the evening again and helped us out with the hospital "code". He couldn't believe that Sara was still getting a morphine family drug more than 24 hours after surgery. He coached us on how to get the pain specialists to give Sara Toradol, a really strong NSAID, for her pain. Apparently it can cause bleeding right after surgery but he gave permission as her surgeon for her to have it Friday morning. When I left at 8 PM, still nothing (!) but now we know we can push hard and be "the squeaky wheel" as Dr. Park said. They should have a course in "Hospital" in school. It's not something you want to learn by trial and error.

After laying in one position for 24 hours we got Sara up and she went for 3 walks, by the end she was "SISSY!"ing me to get that IV rolling thing moving, I was going too slow. She got lots of head and leg massages and we did a little surgery of our own on her tank top so she could get out of the ugly gown.

I am staying home today because the kids are going to go bonkers after so many days without mama but I already miss helping out my sister. It is rare to have her stay in one place for so long and be able to hog her attention. I am sure Mom is laughing right now since the patient is probably more awake today!

Thanks for your comments and messages, it really helps.

LoveYouMeanIt,
Sissy