Many Many Events

Yesterday and today have both been very eventful, and it's only 9:30 today.
Yesterday Stephanie took a walk half way down the hall, and then later with the physical therapist all the way down the hall (for those of you that didn't read my mom's news ruining comment, she really needs to get her own blog eh?). She also had her trach tested by Dr. Burke and later plugged to see how she did breathing through her nose and mouth only. She did really well. Today Dr. Pou came in to take a look at her. She said Stephanie was doing really well especially with her trach plugged. She was even able to tlak a little bit, but Dr. Pou wants her to go easy on the tongue movements until Monday, when she will start speech therapy. They are confident that if Stephanie can handle the feedings she will be going home tomorrow (Thursday). Later this morning, Dr. Burke came in and removed some stitches from the underside of Stephanie's tongue, the staples in her neck (I counted between 45 and 50), and the trach. Stephanie now has just a dressing over the place where the trach was. They say the trachea will heal in about 24-48 hours, and the incision in her skin in 1-2 weeks. Today Stephanie is also scheduled to go do the stair machine in the gym upstairs so that she can make it into our apartment. That's all I have to report now.