Sweet Dreams

Night #2: Done.  With sleeping success!  Praise the Lord! 

Richard stayed the night with Ellie and he said that she slept straight from 6pm till 7am, only getting up for about an hour to watch some Sesame Street.  You have no idea how wonderful that is!  She needed to sleep so badly and the pain is completely under control (when asked if her back hurts, Ellie now responds with, "No, and quit asking all the time!"  Ha!).

Today the main mission is to wean her off the morphine.  She is still on a decent dose (along with a few other drugs that they're also going to try to wean).  As long as the pain doesn't return in the absence of morphine, it will be awesome to get her off that stuff.  She is still so groggy and I'm REALLY missing the chatty, happy Ellie.

The physical therapist will be by later this morning and she will probably try to sit Ellie up on the edge of the bed.  I am hoping and praying that this will be successful because Ellie is itchin' to sit up and doing so will be a great first step towards recovery (and discharge...can't wait for that!  This "hospital hotel" stuff is getting a bit old :-)).

We are optimistic.  It looks like the worst is over and we were all able to power through (though I may need some counseling after the night I spent with her yesterday....good thing it's provided free for me at work, tee hee!).  Pray for continued healing, that Ellie will be able to get off the morphine and other strong drugs, that she will tolerate sitting up and that Richard, my mom and I will have the wisdom to advocate and care for her as needed.

WE LOVE YOU GUYS!

PS: Sorry for not posting pictures.  Ellie decided that her "toy of choice" yesterday would be Daddy's Camera.  So, the batteries are completely dead and I have to wait for them to charge!