Recovery Day

We had a pretty good day today considering how the morning started out.  Once we got her all calmed down from the nurse grabbing the back of her neck at the incision site, we discussed with the nurses about taking out her IV's for good.  Luckily, soon after, Dr Roberts came by to check in and he said we could go ahead, but if it got to a point where the oral meds were not working then they would have to go back in with an IV.  We were fine with that since the IV's were really causing the majority of Henley's pain and discomfort.  She had a great breakfast and played in the room most of the morning.  At some point we decided to let her down and walk, which made the nurses very nervous.  We both had to hold her hand, but she walked a couple of laps around the floor without incident.  We had a scattering of visitors throughout the day that seemed to be perfectly spaced apart.

Dr Roberts came back by around 5:15 to see how she was doing.  He was amazed that she was sitting up and moving around as much as she was.  We let him know that she did just fine on oral meds and was really getting back to herself.  He told us that he wants to see how she does tonight and if all goes well that we will be discharged in the morning.  It's so crazy to us that after less than 48 hours of recovery we will be heading home.

We are finally getting settled in for the night.  Henley has been awake since 3 am this morning and has not slept all day.  We are both exhausted and are hoping that tonight is a little more restful.  We will post in the morning when we are officially discharged.  G'night everyone.