Day By Day

Surgery recovery is hard.  The incision hurts.  Nurses poke with needles at all hours of night.  Sleep is non-existent.  Machines beep.  And you have to drag an IV pole everywhere with you for days at a time.

What no one tells you is how boring it can be too.  You can only watch bad daytime tv for so long.  Magazines get so unexciting.  Yes, even the crappy gossip mags arent entertaining anymore. 

Today we spent time napping and reading and did some Christmas shopping research online for Grace. 

And tomorrow, we will probably do the same thing. 

We are both really looking forward to going home to our own bed, our own tv selections, and most of all, our little girl.

Status Update

Its been a really long 4 days but we are almost home.  

Surgery was a few days ago and Bill has made such good progress.  Less than 24 hours in ICU and this weekend in the cardiac unit, he has been a good patient.  A few more days and we can head home to recover. 

For now, we spend our days taking slow walks around the unit and breathing exercises to help his lungs expand.  And every 4 hours we push the call button for some pain meds.

We had a steady stream of visitors today.  It amazed us.  The hospital is an hour from home yet so many of our friends made the trip to spend some time with Bill.  We really are lucky to have such good people in our lives.

We are both tired. . We are both anxious to get home but dedicated to waiting until his body is ready.  We both miss Grace.  And most of all, we both know how lucky we are to live so close to such remarkable doctors that gave Bill new parts so he can live a long life with us at home.

Just Being

I think there are things to talk about but just not feeling the right words.  I was totally ready for it and now that its here, I am getting a little overwhelmed (already!) with the prep work.  And its only been 24 hours since the date was chosen.  Right now, I am just listing out things to do and trying to cross them off one by one. 

More later...but right now, I have to type out Grace's weekly schedule. 

Picture - Frame Wanted

I take a ton of pictures of Grace.  I post them on this blog.  I upload hundreds every month to Shu.tter.fly and email them out to my family.  Even have a great share site now - go visit! There are some great ones of me and Grace and of Hubby and Grace.  But very rarely do we actually end up with a decent picture of all three of us together.  One of us, usually me, is behind the camera or one of us just looks ridiculous when the pictures are done.

But this weekend, we got one.  Finally.  First decent family picture in ages.

Is it perfect?  No.  But we all look okay.  Having this picture now is perfect timing......the background was gorgeous, its almost time for the annual "holiday card decision", and frankly, life is about to get a little insane with surgery and all that comes with that.  I am just glad that today, I can look up from my work and there on my desk is a picture of my family.

Freeze Tag

Remember that game?  We all played it at some point - at the playground, at school, in the neighborhood.  You run around as fast as you can trying to get away or hide or at least be doing something.  And then you get tagged and have to freeze in place, just to wait for someone else to "un-freeze" you. Just be careful not to get caught by the "It" person cause then you are frozen in place all over again.

And so we are playing this game again.  But this time, the "It Person" controls the schedule at the hospital, Hubby and I are constantly frozen, and the other people who can unfreeze us are all supposedly talking to each other about Hubby but not coming over to "unfreeze" us. 

Loved the game 25 years ago. Today, it sucks.