Day 35 of recovery

8/4/14

Day 35 of recovery

Today we made a lot of progress!  Alexa had 3 doctor appointments, one with the pain doc, GI & Endo.  This morn she had a horrible time trying to get out of bed as she was still feeling the flu symptoms left from being on the Gabapentin.  She woke up for a bit about 10 & ate a little & then fell back to sleep.  We finally convinced her to get up about noon & told her we would walk to Burger King, which is about a mile.  We weren’t really too excited about going there again, just mainly needed to get her out to walk.  We got back in time to get ready to go to the doctor appointments.  Dr. Clavel, the pain dr said we will start cutting back on the pain meds next week.  He wanted to now but Alexa really had quite a bad attack during the night so he decided to give it 1 more week.  Dr. Bellin, the endo, was quite pleased with her blood sugars still & lowered the insulin again!!  It’s exciting to see the islets start working on their own in their new home!!!  Next we saw the GI dr & he said she could go to 12 hr feeds on the tube!!!! YAY!!!  She does have to eat more protein though, in her bloodwork the protein was low.  Chelsea is flying here & will be here around 12:30 tonight.  She is bringing my Blendfresh that I ordered & I will start making smoothies for her every day.  She’s not too thrilled about that but she’ll survive.  The others who have had the surgery here have only been on 12 hr feeds for a few days & then get off completely so hopefully she will do the same.  We got back just in time for dinner & then Ty had his complementary haircut here at the RMH.  They are so nice here & had girls come in to cut hair & do nails free!  They also had a water party out in the backyard but the kids didn’t want to participate so they went to Austin’s room & played a game with him & this other guy named Tyler who is 18 & had the same surgery.  The rest of the night they spent in the game room. 

Back at home everyone is partying without us!  Our house is still being used as the Rowley Inn, just like it usually is when we are there.  It is making us more homesick than ever to know everyone is there without us!  Ty’s parents got there last Thurs night.  They came there so Ty’s Dad could have surgery on his nose to get the cancer out of it.  He ended up being able to have the surgery on Fri & it went really well!!  Marvin & LaRee called us yesterday & asked if they could sleep there with their 3 grandkids.  They slept in Tyson & Alexa’s rooms.  Then we found out that Merlin was coming to stay for a week while he has surgery & he slept in the living room.  I guess our house is the Rowley Inn Recovery Center, haha!!  Too bad Alexa can’t join all the sickies & have some company!  Sunday we also found out the Tiff & Tonya’s families along with Lin & Chelsea were all going to our house to have a BBQ.  Nice way to make us feel a bit more homesick, huh?  At least our house is getting some good use.    Tomorrow Tyson has 3 appointments & Alexa has an appointment to get her picc line out!  YAY!!!  I am so excited about that but she is really nervous!