Carrie's out of CICU

Carrie was moved out of CICU this evening and into a semi-private room. This room is only temperary until they have a private room available. She is still improving. She sat up on the side of the bed and they had her stand up for a little while this evening. The doctor came by and said that she is recovering great and that they may try to sit her up in a chair tomorrow and feed her something other that water and ice. He also said that the mass that was outside of the vena cava was about the size of your fist and the part that was in the vein was about 6 inches long. (HUGE when talking about the human body). We have had questions about visiting and her mom and I are discussing what we are going to do about that. For now we limiting the number of people that Carrie sees at a time. Once she is in a private room, I will let everyone know her room number and everything. If you plan coming to visit her or want to come visit. Send me an email at least 24 hours in advance to jason.chavers@gmail.com. They have a waiting room on our floor so if 20 people show up we might can fit you in the waiting room but only a few will see her at one time. This not to say that we don't want you to come visit, we will have to schedule it. We have not been told exactly how long she will be in the hospital or how long they will keep her on the morphine which causing her to go in and out of sleep.