Patience is a virtue

This is Brian with another update on Wendi. She's still in the hospital, and she still has a CNA watching over her most of the time. She is improving slowly from both a physical and mental standpoint. Her doctor is taking things slow; she's still on an all-liquid diet, and her main source of nutrition is a bag of sugar water pumped through an IV. She's scheduled to have one of her kidney stents removed on Thursday, but the tubes have to stay in there for a while... possibly another week or two. Her doctor told me that she will still have tubes in her when she is discharged from the hospital; that will make it difficult for her to sleep. Once she comes home, she will be very weak, so she will need to build up her strength over time. Right now it's all she can do to go on short walks around the hospital floor with the aid of a walker.

I have to admit, I would feel much better about the situation if she had all the tubes out of her before being discharged from the hospital, but I suppose it can't be helped. Better safe than sorry... We're not exactly sure when she will be discharged; best guess, it will be early next week. At the very least, she will need to be eating solid food, which she has not done since the surgery.