Elizabeth wants this newest tube out! Only 11 more hours until it comes out. It is hard for her to eat. She was looking forward to real food after being tube fed for a week. She ordered spaghetti, carrots, chocolate milk and a brownie for lunch. She tried to eat but the tube is in the way. She says she can feel it even more than the breathing tube and feeding tubes. THat is because it is more rigid and the other tubes were softer. When she took a bite of brownie and swallowed it got stuck on her tube! She was so frustrated! It finally made its way down and she drank her milk. For dinner she just had chocolate milk and chocolate ice cream...both easy to swallow.
I went back to the Ronald McDonald House for dinner tonight. Different groups make dinner nearly every night and tonight dinner was shredded barbeque beef sandwiches, coleslaw, chips and salsa. Pretty good. I'm back in Elizabeth's room now just hanging out. We are going to watch Atonement together. I have a chair that pulls out to a single bed to sleep on in here. Much better than her old room. Oh, yeah I forgot to mention she is in her third room. It's on the 5th floor airway unit and it's nice. It's big and much more private than the ICU rooms. I told her moving down a floor is closer to getting out of here.
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