Update

Update

This is Liz. I am displeased to announce that I am still in the hospital. We were planning an afternoon departure, but it is now 4:30 and I have spent the last six hours lying here watching two pints of blood drip into my veins. I'm not having a super-awesome time, but I do have good news: the pathology came back today and the surgeon got out all of the breast cancer. Clean margins all around! So have a beer for me. I doubt that the hospital looks very favorably upon the combination of alcohol and narcotics. I could be wrong, I suppose, but that almost never happens.

My pain is rotten, but manageable (when I'm holding still or am asleep.). I'm now on my third round of narcotics, because of nausea and horrible itching caused by the first two. I'm also on my third i.v., because the first two became blocked with clots which, apparently, inhibits the efficacy of the medication transfer. I have internal and external sutures on my back, my front, and my side. Also, inexplicably, at the top of my chest, where the surgeon's scalpel slipped trough the skin while removing the breast tissue. We're watching my temperature closely, because it is currently spiking AGAIN. Two nights ago, it climbed to 102.2, which no one found to be an excellent report.

I'm pretty much fed up with people coming to check my vitals, re-stock the room, ask me if I'd like margarine or butter on my roll, and offer to pray over me, but instead stare at me as though they wish to be entertained. I am also tired of being unable to do things for myself. My catheter is out, so I can go into the bathroom by myself (well, myself and my beautiful i.v. pole.) But, I don't have the strength to flush the toilet. I can type this post, but the computer is much too heavy to lift off my lap. I think that it's safe to say that I am not my usual chipper, spunky self, although I do take comfort in the fact that, based on all of your comments, I have all of you snowed.

Go me!

Hopefully, we will have good news after the blood transfusion and will be at home sometime tomorrow. We'll keep you posted and let you know when we are ready for visitors.

Thank you for all of your support.

Liz and Scott