Meeting Willow, the sweet therapy dog

Sara told me today that she might be released from the hospital as early as tonight – yippee! If not tonight, then probably tomorrow. Since the last update, no complications have occurred, but it took a few extra days to get the pain management under control. Even though she tries to maintain a good attitude, we have to remember that she has had a major surgery – through muscles, tissue, and not to mention her liver – she has 23 staples across her diaphragm area! Anyway she was gradually weaned off of the morphine button and the epidural over several days. Which is a good sign, but then she really started to feel the true depth of the surgery-related pain. I’m sure that all of the walking and moving around Sara did the first few post-surgery days helped her body to recover, but with the added factor of increased pain, it was all a bit frustrating. For a little while it almost seemed to Sara like her recovery was backtracking, instead of progressing. But now it is slowly improving.

As you may have seen via her Facebook posts, Sara is still pushing ahead, despite the pain; it’s just that the same tasks take more effort now. She had a very nice visit from a therapy dog, as you can see in the pictures, and is also working on Valentines cards for her class (!). So she is not just laying in bed and resting on her laurels, so to speak :). No that we would expect that of her anyway.

Although Sara may not be up to many visits in her first days back at home, she does appreciate texts from friends to check in on her during the day, especially the periods she is on her own, i.e. the middle of the day when the kids are at school and Eric is at work. When she is up to visits in person, she will be sure to let us know!

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