Saturday 7 pm

A walk up and down the hallway was achieved earlier this afternoon. Physical therapy postponed until tomorrow. Four o'clock vitals showed no fever. Chest x-ray was normal. And we are still in the icu room, though not really getting icu care.

Ed has been really tired today; has slept a lot, but as his nurse zooey says, in the icu, you sleep during the day because nobody sleeps very well at night here. She worked a 12-hour shift yesterday and again today, so it has been great continuity for us. (her name is zoe, not zooey; what am i thinking? Later correction)

I hate leaving at night but, unlike in the regular rooms, i have nothing but a folding chair, which just won't work for a night's anything. The regular rooms have cots so i can stay overnight.

He's sleeping easily now, and i'm off to my hospitality room on the other side of the campus, but it is not raining as it was last night when i walked back (about a 20 minute walk. And that, too, is something to be grateful for. I think neither of us is entirely surprised that it has gone so well, largely because jim park, the surgeon, convinced us it probably would. But he, too, has been impressed by ed's resilience, by his excellent veins, and his healthy liver, in the face of all that could have made it not so great.