The ups and downs of Recovery Road

Lovely patient # 68915, is doing quite well. Since our last episode our heroine has graduated from the intensive care unit to the progressive care unit, and is...progressing! Objects, tubes, wires, and machines have steadily left her body and the hospital room has quieted down substantially over the last couple days. I welcome the new peace happily, fewer bells and whistles, fewer pokes and prods, and a happier patient. She's able to get up and walk around now, doing laps of the nurses station to help get her moving again.

There's been a few set backs, a few confounding blood numbers that are slow to recover and work their way back to the normal range and ensure everything is stabilized post-surgery. And a small lung issue we're hoping gets smaller with the next chest X-ray. A couple more lines here, and a tube there, and a check box or two and we should be able to go home.

They've even already had us watch the discharge and post-hospital stay videos..which Vid promptly fell asleep to...alas, another little side effect of a little ol' open heart surgery: happy go lucky Vida able to sit up, talk and eat, and walk around, and play words with friends one minute, to a completely sacked out eyelids of lead sleeping beauty. Just as she is right now.

Night night sweetie.