And she's home!

Today turned out to be a much better day than the previous ones, despite only really getting one solid hour of sleep last night. She's managing all of her pain with oral meds, so the IVs were able to come out. The knee-moving machine that was so VERY uncomfortable the first time yesterday, is something that today she says puts her to sleep. That's a good thing. She has to be on the machine for 30 minutes per leg three times a day, so three hours of her day is going to be spent with it!!

All of the necessary body systems that need to be moving are moving, so late this afternoon we got the okay to bring her home. The amazing Rose (the boys' in-home care giver) had already told us she was around this weekend for a short notice shift, and true to her word showed up with about an hour's notice to help cover the kids so Matt and I could both be at the hospital for discharge. Here's Dad and one of her favorite nurses (though now that she's not in so much pain that she wishes she was dead, she likes ALL of them) getting her moved into her loaner wheelchair.

 We got her into Big Blue without any real issues (having removed one of the bench seats so she can sit with her legs out in front of her), and made it through the ride home without any break-through pain.

We've been home for three and a half hours so far, and it's been pretty much continuous care-giving! We're fully expecting that we'll get better at this quickly as the days go by, and that as her pain improves, many things will become easier.

[I'm reading back over some of this, and noticing that I've been writing nonsense, though all in a grammatically correct fashion. I've edited those sentences, but am thinking I'd better quit while I'm ahead and leave it at this!]

So, she's home. We're tired. Her mood is by far the best we've seen all week since the morning of surgery, and we'll see what the night brings! We don't plan to be sleeping too much tonight, either.

Owen and Leah coming in to say welcome home and goodnight!!