The sun is shining!

We are making awesome headway! Ariel had a really good night last night. Kind of a rough day but late in the day we made some changes to her pain meds and it really worked for her. She drifted off to sleep at about 4pm and slept until 7pm which was the most she had slept since surgery. YEAH! Then last night I wrote everything out for Joe and told him to stay on top of the meds and it worked. (I came home to sleep) She had several stretched where she slept straight through to when she needed to be turned (she has to be turned every two hours). Only bad news was she has a UTI. But that is taken care of fairly easily with antibiotics. So I am really scared to actually write this for fear of jinxing myself but they are talking about keeping her in ICU for one more night and then sending her home. Yes, I said home. The surgeon doesn't really want to send her to the main floor just because of the risk of infection. So in his words, "because of the family history", he would rather just send her home! I can do everything they are going to do for her as far as the wound care and meds and such and just take her into the office for him to check! That would be sooooooooo awesome. We switched her to oral meds yesterday and the only other thing would be she needs to come off of the O2 today and get rid of her urinary catheter. She will be so much more comfortable here, will sleep better here, just about everything will be better here. So there are major benefits to being an nurse. I love it. So I will keep you all posted:) I am off the the hospital and will check in tonight. We have been so blessed through all of this. Oh and I forgot to tell you all. Physical Therapy came at 2pm yesterday and wanted to put her in her wheelchair. I was dreading it thinking she was going to let her opinion be known in a big way. She did awesome! And we are adjusting her chair today. Her head sat a full head above her headrest. Her neck was actually on the headrest. It is crazy. She is so straight she looks awesome. And yes I am going to lay bets she is almost as tall as I am. Long and lanky. Those that want to visit can just come to the house if all goes well. Wish us luck. NAH, no luck involved where the lord is concerned. We are being looked after. Love to you all.