Another Day At CTCA
Hooray for today! I finally got the chest tube shut off and disconnected from the wall. Freedom!
I can actually walk around the halls, use the restroom, and go down to the cafe now. If all goes well tomorrow with the X-rays and my lung stays expanded, then they will be able to take the chest tube out and I will be one step closer to heading home. The doc may want to ween me off of the IV dilaudid which will add on another 24 hrs to my stay. That’s fine, as long as I’m not confined to my room again.
Today was Kim’s daughter’s birthday. They had a little celebration in the game room area with presents from family and cake. Her daughter is absolutely adorable. It breaks my heart to see such young kids have to experience such a horrible disease at their age. I know Kim wanted to make sure that today was a special day for the kids and wanted to make it so the hospital didn’t seem like “mommy’s sick place,” I hope she accomplished that.
Gina returned back to AZ from her hometown of Buffalo, NY. It was quite without her here over the weekend and it was nice to have her back. We hung out pretty much the entire day doing mics things.
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