Day 1 after surgery (10/15/09)

Doctor’s plan/ Goal for today:

• Remove breathing tube by the end of the day.
• Get out of bed.

Colleen’s plan/Goal for today:

• Remove the breathing tube before noon (really First thing).
• Be able to start to be alert and talk.
• Get out of bed (not really colleens but I threw it in there)
• To be pretty close to breathing without any oxygen help.
• To continue being positive

Well I am happy to report Colleen accomplished all of the Goals.

She was able to do limited movement in bed, talk and give me commands all day. (Thank God I was beginning to be completely lost). Besides all these great things she got plenty of rest and once again impressed the doctors.

Currently she still has 5 Iv’s, 2 ‘lung drains” for lack of words to come out. She is still in a lot of pain (as you could imagine) and very thirsty because she is only allowed ice chips (SHE IS NOT HAPPY ABOUT).

Tomorrows Plan/Goal:

• Take out 3 of the 5 Iv’s
• Start the process of taken out “lung drains” which could be a few days.
• Move from ICU to Surgical room.

I have told her about all the prayers and thoughts people have expressed to me. She smiled and said I love them all and aren’t they so great. So from the bottom of my heart I would like to thank all of you for the help in both prayers/thoughts and in keeping her spirits up.

Seeing it will now be little steps daily the BLOG probably will be a little shorter but the steps to Colleens recovery will be huge. I am so proud of all her hard work, which I have watched not only today but also throughout the whole process.