ICU #49

I was talking to Dr. Temple's resident tonight when I was leaving the hospital and we both agreed that it is almost comforting to be dealing such minor difficulties now. Linda had another tube inserted today - lower right abdomen because of a small abcess, but the tube went in smoothly and started draining away the yucky stuff immediately. I can tell she's getting better by where she is on the Rounds list each morning. A couple of weeks ago, she was always in the top 2, now she's in the bottom 2 to be visited. No physio today - Steph was run off her feet with new patients. Our Armstrong doc even made some noises this afternoon about Linda leaving ICU - she's been off the ventilator since yesterday morning (in fact, the ventilator is turned off!!!) and doing great. Usually they want to see the patient breathing on their own for 48+ hours and we're coming up to that very soon. So maybe this weekend we'll be saying farewell to ICU and the thought of that gave us pause - we have been so fortunate to have these wonderful docs and nurses and RTs and PTs taking care of her and, of course, because of the person she is, many have grown to care for her and stop by just to say Hi or You're looking great (or ask for our email cause they're returning to England). And while we were 'talking' about people we've met here, Kim (the unit clerk) came over with a cell phone, saying there was a call from Saskatoon and it was Tina Allmightyvoice, calling to wish her well and that brought tears to our eyes because it reminded us that we are so blessed to have family and friends who have stood by us throughout the past 6 months, just loving and caring for us. We will never be able to thank you all enough for what you've given us.