Last Friday Post

Almost 7, and Ed is ready to sleep for the night. He got all clean linen, sat up in a chair for almost two hours, and drank a little water and apple juice, the first thing by mouth that he has had. Tomorrow if he feels up to simple food, he can have some. But he will stay on the icu floor overnite because there is no floor bed.

He is down to about four tubes. All the rest gone means he no longer needs those aids, but also that he no longer has those infection risks. The chief icu resident called in and reported the last x-ray was clear and that the chest tube would come out in the morning.

He was concerned that this might be a bad day, remembering how it was in Bellingham with the hemicolectomy when the anesthesia wore off, but the epidural has been wildly successful, leaving me to conclude that if a tree falls in the empty forest, there is definitely no sound. That is, all the pain generated by this procedure and blocked by this epidural does not appear to have been felt in any way by his body.

Good night!