Saturday end.

This whole process is so interesting (some might say traumatizing lol). In just four days we've reached so many highs and plunged to some pretty low lows. Thursday was an amazing day of achievement, then Friday was a tough one. Today was another great day. On the great days I feel like this whole thing will soon be behind us and all the stress and worry is coming to an end, then a few short hours later the low side of reality hits and I wonder how we ever got to this point and how life is ever going to go back to normal.

But today was a good day. Todd went back on the drug he really likes (Tramadol?) and got plenty of rest in between his exercise. The kids came to visit at lunchtime and I got to see him again at dinner time. He took a shower, dressed in his own clothes and ate a dinner I made for him. He looks pretty normal to me. Maybe just like someone looks when they've had a rough day of stomach flu, or maybe when they've been up all night on a SWAT op ;)

I think he does best when he's alone most of the day so we'll limit tomorrow's visits to just two small intervals again. It will be interesting to see if tomorrow is a harder day and whether it's just a pattern of recovery - one good day followed by one bad day.

He's almost off all oxygen, every line is out except an IV for in case they need to access anything and there are still wires attached to his heart. These are not doing anything, but can be used to control his heart if that need were to arise (Yikes). I was able to be involved in the majority of his physical care this afternoon/evening am an now familiar with the new landscape of his body and ready to take over his care at home.  He still has some things elevating and lowering (platelets, hemo-something (something related to anemia) and this and that) but overall it's continuous forward progress.

So excited to have him home very soon!!