May 15th

Dad and Christine started their morning by having a "lovely, romantic breakfast together" in the cafeteria, enjoying breakfast pizzas! After breakfast they hung out for awhile, waiting for the big "all hands" meeting scheduled for 2:15 where all of Christine's doctors would talk to us about discharge logistics, plans, visits, medications, long term issues, restrictions, etc. Dad says to tell everyone that she had a "pillow fight" today - aka, a heated discussion about what pillows she will use while she is at home (with family, not with doctors). She and Dad also did some PT and walking today - and stairs! Big news for the day is that the MRI came back clear - lots of inflammation but no necrosis, phew.

Here is a link to the video of her doing stairs, I can't seem to get it uploaded directly into the blog on the hospital internet: https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=4680031009685

The afternoon meeting went pretty well, though they decided NOT to discharge Christine this evening. They were concerned about the fact her O2 is still dropping in the night, and apparently the new pain meds she is on could in fact make it worse. They would like to try to adjust her bedtime medications as this is the only time that her O2 really drops below 90, so its possible she is just taking too many at once. To monitor the recommended changes, they wanted to keep her overnight one more time. More than likely, while she is have to sleep with O2 while at home to be safe.

Hopefully she will be good to go tomorrow morning! She was very bummed after she heard that she wouldn't be going home today, but she had visitors in the evening to make up for it. Katie and Don came by, and Katie decorated her crutches for her with awesome duct tape! Rachel is here chatting now, and Mom, Tommy, Christine and I will be eating dinner together shortly. Mom will stay with her tonight, and we are keeping our fingers crossed that there aren't any big issues with the O2!

Just so everyone knows, we'll be continuing the blog even after she is home as there will still be updates about her recovery! It may not be daily as there might not be as much to write about, but we will post whenever we have something interesting to say :)