Better Monday

Carrie had a rough night last night. Having to get up several times through the night and not hitting the morphine button as much caught up to her around 4:30am this morning. By the time that I got to the hospital she was feeling better and she was having a better time getting up to go the bathroom. She did some physical therapy first thing and walked to the end of the hallway and back with a special walker, which is about 4 times as far as she walked yesterday. Then this afternoon a different therapist came in and had Carrie get out of bed on her own and she was able to walk around the four different hallways that make up the floor that she is on. She made the entire trip without the walker and for the last part of the walk, she was able to walk it without any assistance from the therapist. So we made a pretty big improvement today. The doctors are talking about starting to give her oral pain killers(lortab) tonight and tomorrow with another pain killer that they can only give her here at the hospital. They said that they would help her more with the pain now than the morphine. Which is good because they are talking about also taking her off of the morphine tomorrow. They have also talked about taking her chest tube and the stomach tube out tomorrow however they have talked about taking the chest tube out the last two days, so I will believe it when they do it. But other than last night everything seems to be better today. Her spirits seem to be higher and at one point she had a pretty big smile on her face which is the first one since the surgery.

Jason