Life's Journey

Well as I write this I’m sitting in Sarah’s hospital room and she is fast asleep, so unfortunately we didn’t make our original goal of making it home by Superbowl Sunday. She’s been in the hospital over a week now and current hopes are that she’ll be able to come home by the end of this week. The recovery from this surgery has been very hard. Lots of pain, nausea, different medications, TPNs, respiratory treatments and even a couple of blood transfusions.

It appears that she has turned the corner for the better (knock on wood) as yesterday she was able to get out of bed and sit in a chair for 30 minutes and today she was able to walk a few steps around the hospital bay. Baby steps to be sure, but critical ones because at this point movement is imperative to promote further healing and recovery. As she always does, Sarah is taking on this challenge with remarkable courage and determination. Her drive to get back home to Ben, “Big Red”, her crap shows (as I call them), and our normal life as quickly as possible is propelling her to push through pain I couldn’t imagine. She’s still sleeping most of the day and is not quite up to posting updates herself but I know she will as soon as she is able.

-Roy