Elizabeth and I are just hanging out, waiting for tomorrow. Tomorrow she will go back to the operating room to have tube removed and a scope to look at how her trachea is healing. There will be one of two outcomes. 1. she will come back to the ICU without a tube! or 2. she will come back to ICU with a smaller tube in place for a few more days. All depends on how it looks in there.
We are pretty bored today. Last night at 11:00PM Elizabeth was moved to a different part of the ICU. They needed her room for a trauma that just arrived. They said Elizabeth is now stable enough to not need that section of ICU. She doesn't like her new room because she has all new nurses and her TV doesn't work very well. The picture is all red. All shades of just red. Like watching TV with rose colored glasses on.
She has had a lot of pain in her neck today and a headache that goes down to her right jaw. She is getting pain meds but the pain still breaks thru. She says the pain inside is like the worst sore throat you can ever imagine. It will get better when the tube comes out.
I'm going back to the Ronald McDonald House at 6:30 for a free dinner and then I will walk back up here. I will stay with Elizabeth until 11:30PM and then catch the shuttle back to RMH. I will get back here by 5:30AM tomorrow.
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Trish:
I am glad to hear that Elizabeth is doing better. I ran into Tom and Jack at Big Boy in Ann Arbor last Thursday. Tom explained how things were going. I am hoping that you are taking care of yourself just as you are of Miss Elizabeth.
The more I read about everything she has gone through, the more and more I am inspired by all that she has endured. I am sure that I would not have been a good patient if I were in her shoes.
Please pass along my best to her. Take care of yourself as well. You are "burning the candle at both ends" as my dad would say. Of course as a parent, you would do ANYTHING for your kids.
-Scott
Hi Trish & Elizabeth,
My thoughts and prayers are with you today; I hope everything goes smoothly and the tube is gone when you wake up from surgery! Love you both. See you soon! Theresa
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