February 08, 2008

She's in her room!

10pm - She is now out of recovery, in her room, and we get to see her until 11. She is in a great deal of pain from the move from one bed to another, but the nurses are trying to quickly get her enough meds to make her comfortable. She has blood coming out of her NG tube, which looks really scary, but they said that it "happens sometimes, we just have to keep an eye on it." The central line in her neck, the oxygen tube in her nose, and all of the IV cables make for a pretty scary sight. She is currently very uncomfortable and still very groggy from the meds. I am very glad that we've gotten to see her and talk to her, but I almost wish she would fall back asleep, just so she will be more at ease. We get to come back tomorrow morning around 7am. I hope that she is feeling a little better by then, but the nurse and doctors have all explained that the first "few days" will be very rough for her. She is in Unit 6B, room 236, bed 2. However, they do NOT allow flowers in the rooms (If you were to send flowers now, they would just show them to her real fast and then put them at the nurses station, so I don't really recommend sending them. If you MUST send them, I would at least wait about a week until she is able to move around so that maybe she could at least go to the nurses' station to see them.) It's been a pretty long, hard day and I want to thank you all for your continued support and prayers that have brought her through this safely.

James

2 comments:

Heather said...

That is such good news! We are thinking about her constantly and hope her recovery is as fast as possible.

Give her our best wishes.

Her Uncle Tim and Aunt Heather.

Robin Kee said...

James, please tell Nicole I love her and am happy to hear that things are going well. Make sure that you are taking care of yourself as well up there. I'm thinking a lot about you both.
Robin