Monday ~ from Kara

Hello everyone. Just a quick update of what went on over the weekend and today. As of tonight, mom is still in the ICU, where they are taking good care of her and monitoring her closely. They will be moving her to a regular room tomorrow at some point. She had one of her chest tubes removed on Sunday. There was still too much drainage from the other one to be removed today, so the plan is to remove it tomorrow as well. That chest tube also showed evidence of an air leak, but her doctor felt that it was leaking from outside of the lung, so they are watching that closely. The weekend brought more pain and sickness. She is pretty miserable and in a lot of pain. The narcotics they were giving her started to make her very sick again, so they are really trying to hold off on those. She can't get comfortable and she is feeling really overwhelmed by this whole ordeal. She couldn't eat much of anything today. We're trying to make her eat, which is not fun. She is doing well moving around, though, and took 3 laps around the nurses station, 3 times today. She was exhausted and hopefully will get some sleep tonight. I'll update more tomorrow.