6/18/09

Dad made a lot of progress yesterday although he was definitely feeling it. The nurse said day three is usually one of the worst but that things usually start to look up from there. We are hoping what she said was true and that tomorrow will bring a little less pain. They were able to remove majority of the tubes from his body yesterday which really helped him look a lot better. He is still having a lot of drainage coming from his chest so those tubes were left in. Hopefully they will be able to remove them soon so it isn't as difficult to breath. They took him off of the blood pressure medication yesterday morning but ended up putting him back on it a few hours later. He was able to go back off it by the end of the day. Dr. Karwande came and gave him a look and said that everything was looking good. We love hearing that! Dad ate his first meal since surgery at lunch. I'm sure that hospital food really helped him regain his appetite. ;) They are standing him up a lot more to help him prepare for more activity. I'm sure they will want him comfortable with walking by the time he leaves the hospital. They finally transferred him out of ICU last night. Yahoo! They are hoping to get him out of the hospital by tomorrow or Saturday. Day three down!