Home Sweet Home

After 12 days and Carrie's 7 1/2 hour surgery we are finally home. It hit us kind of quick to. I spent the night at the hospital with Carrie last night and at about 5am one of the residents came in to check on her. He removed one of her bandages and said that they were going to talk to Dr. Arnoletti about her going home today or tomorrow. She and I had already talked about if we were really ready to come home and decided that it would completely up to the doctor. So while Carrie's mom and I were gone to the hotel to close things out and get all of our stuff packed up, Dr. Arnoletti makes the rounds and talks to Carrie. He said that he was certain that she was physically able to go home. This was about 11:30 am. After I got back to her room we were sitting there talking about everything and was thinking that it would later this afternoon when we would be discharged. At noon, the chief resident came in to remove the PICC line out of Carrie's arm and she asked him if he knew about how long it would take before she could leave and he said 30 minutes. So needless to say we didn't have much time to get everything packed up in the room and get it loaded in the car which was three blocks away. Carrie was discharged shortly after 1pm and it took a little while for the escorts to come get Carrie. We left the hospital at about 2:15pm and got to Auburn about 4:30pm (I took it easy on the interstate). We unloaded, I got prescriptions filled and dinner and now I am calling it a night. Since Carrie's mom is here and I only work 2 minutes from home, I am going back to work tomorrow. As for my blog, the updates are going to slow down. I probably will not be posting every day but will be posting on days that we have appointments with the doctors and all. We have to go back UAB for a check up next Tuesday, so there will be a post when we get back from that.

Carrie and I would like to say THANK YOU to everyone for your thoughts and prayers during the last week and a half. We could not have made it though it without them. Thanks to eveyone (all 380 of you) that joined the "We're praying for Carrie Chavers" group on Facebook and for everyone that took time to check my blog for updates. God has truly blessed us with friends and family like you.

Jason & Carrie