No Room at the Inn

Praises today, The doctors (Nuss and Daigle) came in this morning to tell me they saw no reason not to move Stephanie to the Respiratory Care Unit (RCU). She has to go there because of the trach. Unfortunately there was absolutely no room in the RCU, in fact the guy in the bed next to Stephanie was doing real bad and they wanted to move him there, but ended up just moving him elsewhere so his family could be with him. Thankfully Stephanie's situation is no where near that desperate, so we can live with the SICU for a little while longer. I told Melissa today that we liked her, but I didn't want to see her next time she worked (unless she transferred of course). We had a good day today, my parents and sister will go home tomorrow, so we ate at a Mexican restaurant to bid them farewell. Stephanie was pretty awake most of the time, she got up in her chair with very little help and stayed in it for about four hours. The physical therapist said she thinks maybe they'll start walking tomorrow which would be great for Steph, every step she takes is one closer to removing one more tube from her. Her fever today was gone, and her temp stayed right around 98 all day, another praise, she's also started watching tv, I guess the drugs aren't entertaining enough for her anymore. I try to remind her everyday that they won't let her take the pump home with her.